Fighting backs: Military wives pose shirtless to raise PTSD awareness
Ashley Wise posted a photo of herself with a message on her back, launching the "Battling Bare" campaign
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Ashley Wise posted this picture of herself in April, launching the "Battling Bare" campaign (June 28, 2012)
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Military wives are baring it all to get their husbands treatment forpost-traumatic stress disorder, posing topless or nude to raise awareness about the battle-related illness.
The “Battling Bare” campaign was begun by Ashley Wise, a Tennessee woman who says her husband didn’t get the support he needed after coming home from Iraq suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
This past April, frustrated, Wise posted a picture of herself in the nude holding her husband’s M4, with a message on her back that she hoped would not be ignored:
“Broken by battle, wounded by war, I love you forever, to you this I swore,” the words written on Wise’s back read. “I will quiet your silent screams, help heal your shattered soul, until once again, my love, you are whole.”
The tender message seemed to resonate: Scores of other military wives and girlfriends have bared their backs to make the same pledge, and by yesterday afternoon, the “Battling Bare” Facebook page had more than 10,000 “likes” from supporters.
Wise says she was so desperate to get the Army’s attention at one point that she considered streaking on the military base to get noticed.
“I’m not an expert on PTSD,” Wise told the Leaf-Chronicle in Clarksville, Tenn. “I just know that somebody needs to keep opening their mouth until someone listens.”
The “Battling Bare” campaign was begun by Ashley Wise, a Tennessee woman who says her husband didn’t get the support he needed after coming home from Iraq suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
This past April, frustrated, Wise posted a picture of herself in the nude holding her husband’s M4, with a message on her back that she hoped would not be ignored:
“Broken by battle, wounded by war, I love you forever, to you this I swore,” the words written on Wise’s back read. “I will quiet your silent screams, help heal your shattered soul, until once again, my love, you are whole.”
The tender message seemed to resonate: Scores of other military wives and girlfriends have bared their backs to make the same pledge, and by yesterday afternoon, the “Battling Bare” Facebook page had more than 10,000 “likes” from supporters.
Wise says she was so desperate to get the Army’s attention at one point that she considered streaking on the military base to get noticed.
“I’m not an expert on PTSD,” Wise told the Leaf-Chronicle in Clarksville, Tenn. “I just know that somebody needs to keep opening their mouth until someone listens.”
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