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Active duty servicewomen I spoke to at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky, where I was reporting for the Women’s Media Center series on Iraq and the rape and murder of Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi, believe that the military is doing its best to care for soldiers suffering from PTSD or related disorders. But they might have a rude awakening if they seek mental health care, judging from Sara Corbett’s cover story, The Women’s War, in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine, where she details the multiple ways women vets “fall through the cracks.”
The cost of war—measured both in lives and dollars—will be with us for some time to come. On the anniversary of the war in Iraq, we all must ask, “Whose war?”
Tamera Gugelmeyer, a New York based writer and consultant, lived in Abu Dhabi in the mid-1990s.
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