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The ‘forgotten’ lobotomies on World War II vets In 2013, the world street journal discovered a cache of files that revealed that the U.S government lobotomized over 2000 veterans against their will after WW2. The veterans were lobotomized for reasons such as PTSD, depression, schizophrenia and occasionally homosexuality  Around 2,000 mentally ill veterans were lobotomized in the years during and after World War II, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Wednesday. The Journal came upon a collection of memos, letters and government reports that described the Veterans Association’s use of the brain-altering operations in 1,930 documented cases, with reason to believe more procedures had occurred during gaps in the records. According to the report, the operations were performed on former servicemen that had been diagnosed as “depressives, psychotics and schizophrenics, and occasionally on people identified as homosexuals.” A lobotomy procedure involved severing connection...