pt 10

• An illustrative claim is demonstrated in the following portion of the text:
• “Just the general overwhelmingness of her distress, of that awful overstimulating hypervigilance, the sort of thing you develop sometimes when you live with someone who looks out the living room window for danger literally hundreds of times a day, or who goes from room to room, room to room, over and over to make sure everyone in each one is still alive”
• This claim takes a situation and illustrates an alternate scenario, in this case that is the example of a feeling you may get living with someone with extreme paranoia. This is used to show how this veteran’s wife felt second hand stress, using this scenario to explain the situation further. 

• So she doesn’t. If she’s not saving lives on the phone or blogging, she’s offering support via Facebook, where thousands of Family of a Vet users and nearly 500 FOV volunteers congregate and commiserate. 
• This is a numerical claim, it is being utilized to show how many people are currently involved in the veteran support group, and also allows the commonality of the issue to be displayed. You also see a credibility claim be instilled in this quote when discussing Brennan’s efforts she puts into the support group, highlighting her position. 

•  Another woman’s husband had a service dog die in the night, and the death smell in the morning triggered an episode she worries will end in him hurting himself or someone else if she doesn’t get him into a VA hospital, and the closest major clinic is four hours away and she is eight and a half months pregnant and got three hours of sleep, and the clinic’s website says its case manager position for veterans of Iraq or Afghanistan is currently unstaffed, anyway.
• One of the first types of claims you see is an attributive claim, the phrase beginning with “Another womans’ ‘ opened up the presentation to display someone else’s claim and story. An ethical or moral claim is presented in the quote when they discuss the understaffed nature of the hospital, placing judgment on the nature of the situation at hand.
• Kateri’s eight-year-old son now also counts the exits in new spaces he enters, points them out to his loved ones, keeps a mental map of them at the ready, until war or fire fails to break out, and everyone is safely back home
• Of all the illustrative claims you see, this one shows very well how easily even children can pick up on mannerisms of PTSD from family members. Painting this scenario allows people to see the anxiety in a small child over a floorplan of any public space, really highlighting the severity of second hand PTSD.