The Malady Gets a New Name (Humor)

Since there's very little humor to be found on this subject, I thought I would mention this morning's entry.  Looking over the blog statistics to see where this blog is being read, in and amongst the more serious readers, from the VA, the Pentagon, etc., I came across the search string that drew a schoolchild from the New York Public Schools here -- Brooklyn, to be exact.  He or she was looking for stories about "post-dramatic stress in soldiers coming back from Iraq or Afghanistan."  Post-dramatic, indeed.  That's some seriously dramatic stuff the troops have encountered in combat.  Wouldn't surprise me at all if it created trauma.  Cute, funny, but also...true.  Dramatic as in, way more than the ordinary person expects to see or experience.  I think the schoolkid had it right...