Story behind my research; Effects of PTSD on Homecoming Soldiers.

I chose this topic because ever since I was little I have wanted to join the military. I was never certain what branch until around lat 6th early 7th grade when my friend Daniel and I started talking about joining the Marines together. Ever since then I have wanted to be a Marine, I have read multiple books about soldier's experiences in the war and how it really is instead of how it is portrayed in movies and glorified on television. War is not a glorious thing, it breaks men down and sometimes drives them to the point of insanity and self destruction; and the thing that causes this? Post traumatic stress disorder, or P.T.S.D for short. This disorder can cause paranoia, flashbacks to situations they were in while still overseas at war, nightmares, and drive them to things such as drug addiction or alcoholism to try and cope with everything that is happening to them.