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I could see Stacy on slow burn.

Trish Barini, Friend of a Veteran with PTSD, talks about the signs of PTSD that she saw.

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I do have one incident which comes to mind

that happened recently, where Stacy and I were,

happened to be doing something that entailed being

fingerprinted, and we were facing each other

across the table, going down the line,

and the gentleman holding her hand, fingerprinting her

made a comment about a -- he did not know at the time

that Stacy was a Veteran suffering from PTSD,

but he made a comment about a young girl that he had met

who was a war Veteran from Iraq, and he called her crazy

because when he approached her, she panicked

and asked him, please, not to touch her.

And he laughed, and while he was fingerprinting Stacy

he made the comment about,

"What are we doing to our women soldiers over in Iraq?

They're crazy!"

Which, I wanted to say to him,

"You don't know whose hand you're holding."

And I could see Stacy on slow burn.

She wanted to just haul off and deck that guy. [Laughs]

She wanted to deck him.

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