The unseen cost of war

American mindsSoldiers can sustain psychological wounds for a lifetime


But PTSD specialists say reservists and National Guard soldiers appear particularly vulnerable. War is not the full-time job of the estimated 160,000 "weekend warriors" now in Iraq -- civilian soldiers who have been called up in the largest numbers since World War II. They have off-duty lives, careers and demands back home that increase stress.


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