“Certainly she seems better than some other PTSD vets’ kids.”

Comparative claim. Comparing how she acts and behaves to other PTSD kids.

“Caleb has been home since 2006, way more than enough time for Brannan to catch his symptoms.”

Evaluation and factual claim. The factual is stating how long he has been home for. The evaluation is the next part in how it is showing how the symptoms came about for the situation.

“Brannan fully supports any wife who feels that she or her children are in danger, or in an untenable mental-health environment, or for whatever reason who decides to leave. She’s here, through the Family of a Vet, to help those people. But she’s also there for those FOV users who, like her, have decided to stay.”

Definition claim. Just like every mother, Brannan is ready to fight when people close to her are in danger.

“I’m not for taking her somewhere and getting her labeled. I’d rather work on it in softer ways,”

Moral claim. She thinks it is wrong and doesn’t want her daughter to be labeled as something when there are other ways.

“That’s typical parent stuff, but Brannan also keeps Caleb on his regimen of 12 pills—antidepressants, anti-anxiety, sleep aids, pain meds, nerve meds, stomach meds—plus weekly therapy, and sometimes weekly physical therapy for a cartilage-lacking knee and the several disintegrating discs in his spine, products of the degenerative joint disease.”

Categorical claim. Shows what Caleb takes specifically and how much. Also, explains the problems and injuries that Caleb is experiencing.