When the cameras arent rolling?

How to expose what really happens when the TV crews and other families leave and reality sets in?
You see the families crying as their husbands and sons come home from deployment.
You see fathers crying as they hug their sons home and wives and toddlers running to met their solider as he disembarks What is not shown is the soldiers months later in a rehab facility still trying to walk using 2 canes or going to speech therapy trying to say their name with no lower jaw. Soldier after soldier in a drug percocets haze.

But strangely there are no crying fathers or wives with chubby healthy babies smiling at their soldiers now. These soldiers are now alone, no phone calls, no visits, no going home for holiday breaks, no weekends away from the facilities with loving supportive families. Those moms do return one in twenty phone calls from their son/soldiers made to them but only when looking for money. It's always for the money.

So after the soldier has tried and worked hard to over come having his brain shook up so much he can't remember the lay out of his room, he gets lost in his own bathroom and it's never going to get better. There are no moms and girlfriends picking him up to take him home, he will be parked at a nursing home in his drug haze, lost in his confused mind not able to speak clearly or walk with out assistance. He will be 24 years old surrounded by old men and women, he will sit in a wheelchair he will lose what ever progress he made in rehab and no family will visit except to get the money.

When I see those flag waving families cheering as their soldier comes home I want to see where they will be in six months if the money would to run out. Or if the solider has short term memory loss and wears a helmet because has no skull to protect his brain. Those families arent going to stick around. They will call and say they "need" a iphone and to send money or the kids "need" to go to cheerleading camp send a check but they won't visit and the mothers won't bring soldiers child to visit cause the look of the solider is to much for a 14 year old to " handle". No old friends from HS come to visit no old comrades from their unit come cause they are on the other side of the country too far away and dealing with their own issues of being "home".

The soliders one after another get more and more isolated more depressed, not really trying at rehab any more cause in the back of their mind some know their families arent coming. Lined up for the morning meds hands out for the opiates so they can escape from reality and the loss. And as the discharge date approaches and the solider talks of family coming to get them to take them home how should it be broken to them that no one is coming, that they are 28 or 19 or 42 and they are going to a nursing home and there they will stay to rot?

Omg that's a lot to read you should make it shorter next time I'm not gonna read all that lol