Forgotten Veterans

An interview with Pascal Lacoste, A Canadian UN-NATO veteran who suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as well as several physical ailments. This is part of a larger piece on PTSD by Alex Leduc. Edited by Alex Leduc. Images by Alex Leduc and Raffy Boudjukanian.

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• Pascal
• Lacoste
• Canadian
• UN-NATO
• veteran
• suffers
• Post-Traumatic
• Stress
• Disorder
• physical
• ailments
• PTSD
• radioactive
• poisoning
• East
• Timor
• Peacekeeping
• Operational
• Injury

[rockhead9969]

J'aimerais noter, j'ai ecrit un article pour le journal Gazette de Montreal sur ce sujet apres avoir fait ces entrevues et ces videos.

FYI, I also managed to get this story published in the Montreal Gazette after doing this and other interviews.

Google "Veterans Share Trauma"

[theIAMwithin]

So, So, So, Sad Story ! but i which I could have sympathy. Knowing you solders are the ones using these pure evil to kill people, mostly women and children, make me so mad. All the tyrant in history ,were, only, because they could so easily deceive people like him... Radio active weapons!!! Now who the #### are the real terrorist?

[noemiesabrina1]

BRAVO M. LACOSTE vous êtes VRAIMENTT COURAGEUX

[weginale]

J'espère que le ministe Blanay va vraiment mettre un commité consultatif efficace pour cette cause !

[weginale]

Je lis sur les cyber nuovelle que la greve de la faim a été arreté ? Es-ce que quelqu'un a des infos ;a savoir si il y a eu avancement pour aider tous les anciens combattant infecter à l'uranium apauvrit?

[weginale]

Les gens INTELLIGENT COMPRENNENT ton geste et les IMBÉCILES TE JUGE. Bravo pour ton geste de solidarité envers les autres vétérant et de ne pas accepter que seulement toi recoive un traitement adéquat et de continuer ta greve de la faim pour pouvoir obtenir des traitement adéquats pour tous les autres ! TOUT UN HOMME , RESPECT!!!

[garimaheath]

I would like to share this - is there any english versions anywhere?

Or subtitled, at least?

[rickthelup]

Please, please retitle this video!!..."Corporal Pascal Lacoste / The Forgotten Veteran"...is name is Pascal Lacoste!!...he has a name for crying out loud!!...and has been "poisoned" while on the call of duty for god's sake!!...does'nt anybody care?...this is the most disgraceful and shameful act of cruelty that can be inflicted upon an armed forces veteran!!...beeing abandoned by is peers!!...where is everybody?...Dr. Gilles Julien please help him!!...shame on you Canadian Armed Forces!!...

[BitOveRate]

@BitOveRate was it that bad before?