By Stacy Bannerman, The Progressive. Posted March 5, 2007.
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Unlike active duty military, the National Guard had no functional family support system or services in place. While the Guard was scrambling to get it together, my husband was already gone, and I was alone, just months after we had moved to Seattle.
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It was hard to reconnect after more than a year apart, and the open wound of untreated PTSD made it virtually impossible.