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From Under Fire: Haunted by Memories of War, a Soldier Battles the Army

By Lynne Duke, Washington Post Staff Writer

Monday, November 1, 2004; Page C01

An Army survey, completed last December, found that 17 percent of soldiers and Marines who’d returned from duty in Iraq reported symptoms of major depression, anxiety or PTSD. The number is expected to go higher with time, as more soldiers return from duty in this conventional war that has become a harsh counterinsurgency campaign. And Matthew J. Friedman, executive director of the National Center for PTSD, predicts that many more PTSD cases will go unreported; the Army survey also found that soldiers still are intensely reluctant to divulge their symptoms because of fear of being stigmatized as weak.