“She saw her husband through peripheral neuropathy, PTSD, prison, Agent Orange-linked disease, saw her son suffer living with a ball of anxiety and succumbing to drugs, and she doesn’t regret one day.”
This quotes is Evaluative claim because she says she saw her husband and son go through these things and she still continued to love them. There is evidence in this claim beside what she went through and what she saw because it is her word. So this quote has no real data or research and is based off what she saw and experienced. She is showing what real love is and how nothing can brake that when it is true love. This claim involves judgment by the person traumas and events they went through.
“With a half million disability cases stuck in a VA backlog, and an estimated 25 percent of Iraq/Afghanistan troops with PTSD not seeking treatment”
This quote is a Factual claim because of the data that is in the quote. The facts in this quote is the half million disability cases that are stuck in the VA because of how backed up the are and how hard it is to get into the VA. Thousands of troops from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have come back with disability but have had hard time trying to get this treated. A lot of troops also suffer from PTSD after returning from these locations. This uses facts and data to support the claim
“If they make an appointment at the VA and can’t get in for several weeks, how do they eat, they want to know, in the meantime.”
This quote is a ethical or moral claim because in this claim it talks about their family’s and expresses ethical judgment. This claim is relating if they cant get help from the vet then what are they going to do because everything else has fallen apart. This happens to a lot of troops when the return because they suffer from some disability that eventually gets bad and destroyers their life and their family members too. So if they get refused help where do they go to get help and not end up homeless or do anything worse. This uses emotions and ethical judgment to support this claim.
Counterintuitive Fall 2024 
I appreciate the lengthy evaluations, Propel. They show your understanding and compassion, but for this assignment, the better evidence of your learning will be in the number of claims you can discover in the sections you cite.
—It’s Evaluative for sure.
—But it’s also Categorical because it clusters four conditions as consequences of combat service.
—The same list of “outcomes of serving” are also obviously Causal since combat trauma is to blame for all of them, according to “she.”
—It’s Attributive since the author does not claim to have independent knowledge of the evidence, as you note.
—When you make your own judgement, that she means “continued to love them” when she says she doesn’t “regret one day,” I’m trusting you that she doesn’t mean, “I don’t regret that they went to serve their country.”
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