Argumentative Essay On How Veteran Are Treated After Coming Out Of Military

I was in the military for six years, during Desert Storm. In the army, there were a lot of experiences, horrible ones, and good ones. According to my analysis, during my service as a veteran, military exposes the servicemen in severe conditions, death, sexual abuse and other things. The desert storm in my life was the time we were on the battlefield, you prayed that God would help you kill your enemy and not to get injuries. In a battlefield is either you beat your enemy or be defeated.
During the six years, I went through a lot, trauma from the wars I was involved in and the environment wasn’t friendly. Night attacks from the enemy and wild animals in our camps were frequent. This led to not having peaceful night, having nightmares and life became hard each day.
As I can state the negative part of my 6years, I can also look at the brighter side of the military life. Special treatment from the state, good salary and partying were part of the army. Each day I woke up I would long for the army leave or any party to come up; this would draw me away from the usual life of battling, setting off explosions that sometimes affect the veterans.
Life after coming out of the military is difficult. To start with, getting a friendly accommodation to the ordinary society is hard, beginning to live a normal life like any other person is hard. When I was out of the military, life was not a bed of roses; I struggled to fit into my family than to the surrounding society. At home everyone was against me sitting around doing nothing thus, I started the jungle of looking for a job. It was hard to be accepted in many offices, I was frustrated and ended using hard drugs, going to clubs to reduce stress and depression. The State never helped me even getting another job or counseling. Life was horrible, I went through rehabilitation so as I would stop using drugs, it took time before I came out of drugs. My family rejected me; I moved the family to stay away, and later a friend helped get a job. Through my experience post- traumatic stress disorder is dangerous for an individual and the government should come in to help her ex-veteran in adapting to the ordinary life, such as provide jobs and counseling services.
During my time of post-traumatic stress disorder, I used to have nightmares, I could sit down and I the events of the war recurred in my mind and it was atrocious. Sleepless nights were the order of the day, thinking of friends I lost through war and the people who I killed, it made me go crazy and these almost lead me in committing suicide. I viewed life as a life of no importance and everything around me made no sense. I was vexed by anything around, irritated, and I fought with my family a lot and this caused pain to me and my family.
Negative thoughts disturbed me a lot; I hated myself from what happened in the military during my time. I wondered what would have happened if I never joined the military, maybe I would be a doctor and leading an ordinary life. I would not would not see blood sheds, painful tears, watching mothers run with their kids on the backs. Life would be different; I was ashamed of my activities and felt guilty of all those deaths I caused.
After I had gone through rehabilitation, I went through many changes in life. I was counseled and came to terms with my past and current life. I visited a doctor who helped me in with my depressions and today I am a changed person. Later I looked for a dog-walking job that I do up to date. It is an enjoyable job; it keeps me away from the world and my past life experience.
In conclusion, I urge our government to look into the lives of the ex-militaries, these are the people who safeguard our country, and the least they can be offered after their service has expired is rejection. There is a lot the we don’t know about the post-traumatic stress disorder, and thus the government and the military should come in to help its employees to find out more about them.