When she was with her sisters her posts had some realistic detail. Now, they all have a hazy dreamlike quality. I'm going with the Coach on this, I think she has had a break with reality and probably needs institutionalization.
You know, we had a big tornado up here in northeastern Nebraska last Friday, about suppertime.
As an "E-4," I'm not sure it was as big as the one that hit Joplin, but I'm sure it was pretty big. Its path was two miles wide, and it sheared off the entire eastern part of Wayne, Nebraska, and part of the southern part. "Only" sixteen people were hurt, "only" one of them seriously, but one has to remember we aren't as crowded as southwestern Missouri.
By Saturday morning, even before anybody from state or federal agencies showed up, the people were already cleaning up, putting things back into order.
Now, I've never been through a tornado (I slept through one once, but that doesn't count), and of course it's undeniably a horrifying experience, probably enough to make someone crack, lose it (temporarily).
And here we got Amber alleging PTSD more than two years after she was in one. It appears to me she's using it as an excuse to get mood-altering drugs, and as a scapegoat for her self-imposed problems.
The fact of the matter is, nature kills. I'm sure that dutch508, longview, and Skul can back me up on this; living, or having once lived, in the Sandhills of Nebraska, we're fully aware of how hostile nature can be to us, at times. I'm sure that they, and I, have at various times been "almost killed" by one force or another of raw nature.
But we don't take it personally; it's the nature of nature, nothing can be done about it, and so one just gets by best one can.
It's different with combat duty. Nature is pretty indiscrimate about who it kills, but in combat, a specific human being is seeking to kill another specific human being. A human killing another human violates all of our standards of decency and civilization (although it's sometimes necessary, in fact imperative, if one wishes to survive).
And so I can see, easily, someone doing combat duty, getting PTSD.
Amber was never in combat duty, never in a situation where her life was threatened by another person. Amber merely encountered nature during one of its more-convulsive moments, and nature wasn't going after Amber
specifically.
If this is a demontration of her strength of character, Amber might as well lie down and die, and humanity would be the no worse off.
