# Is PTSD more common among soldiers now than in the past? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [February 3, 2017, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ptsd-more-common-among-soldiers-now-than-in-the-past/778892 "2017-02-03T11:30:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ptsd-more-common-among-soldiers-now-than-in-the-past/778892/41 "2017-05-25T18:57:26Z")
Interesting issue. I note the acronym is misspelled as “PSTD” in the first paragraph of Cecil’s response to the question. > [@RivkahChaya](#): > > …Also, WWII vets came home to ticker tape parades. Vietnam vets got spit on… Well, accounts differ: [http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/editorial\_opinion/oped/articles/2005/04/30/debunking\_a\_spitting\_image/](http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/04/30/debunking_a_spitting_image/) > **[The Spitting Image](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spitting_Image)** > > The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory and the Legacy of Vietnam is a 1998 book by Vietnam veteran and sociology professor Jerry Lembcke. The book is an analysis of the widely believed narrative that American soldiers were spat upon and insulted by anti-war protesters upon returning home from the Vietnam War. The book examines the origin of the earliest stories; the popularization of the "spat-upon image" through Hollywood films and other media, and the role of print news media in perpetuating the n Le... > **[Newsweek repeats the myth of the gobbed-upon Vietnam vet.](https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/01/newsweek-repeats-the-myth-of-the-gobbed-upon-vietnam-vet.html)** > > The myth of the spat-upon Vietnam veteran refuses to die. Despite Jerry Lembcke's debunking book from 1998, Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-ptsd-more-common-among-soldiers-now-than-in-the-past/778892.md?page=2)