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Every day,I honor the fallen soldiers by saying a short Prayer: "Please keep Our soldiers and their families safe." Most days it works, but sadly more days it does not. NOT ONE MORE. We have lost Brave men and women for What?
I saw my Brother come back from Viet Nam, confused, mad, hooked on drugs, Agent Orange, and the Govt.destroyed a good Man.
What will the next generation of Soldiers need when they return to the REAL WORLD and their families and loved ones?
Bush and his "Dodgers" don't understand the Horror of Post Tramatic Stress Syndrome, but the Families understand.
Families like mine, we buried my brother after he committed suicide 3 years ago.
NOT ONE MORE
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Another G.I. Story
My condolancies to you. My husband is a Vietanam veteren. I had not seen him have flashbacks for years.Then Bush decided to change the Geneva Convention, as we watched the news at first, John McCain was the holdout, then for the next 2 weeks all we heard was how that might hurt his 2008 run, then he buckled to Bush and it passed. As I went down to wake him the next day I saw brokes glass all over the place the rec room looked like a war zone, as I watched in horror as he swung his fist and screamed [Charlie, the Vietanam enemy, I killed you once I,ll kill you again, he had cuts on his body and kept repeating Chalie,s trying to kill me again,the next room looked almost as bad with broken things. I was scared but I couldn,t get him to go to the hospital. This continued all day and the next day when he came out of it he looked in awe at the conditions the room was in.Now as for John McCain his arms and legs were broken when he was captured as a prisioner and the Geneva Convention was probably the only reason McCain is still alive, to cop to Bush on the Geneva Convention for 2008 election vote how low can people sink has Bush corruped the whole administration. No vote from us for McCain in 2008 and I don,t think any other veteren will vote for him. A Concerned Citizen
For anyone who doesn't understand what the guys went...
through in Nam...and now in Iraq, you might benefit from reading Jim Webb's Fields of Fire, yeah, that Jim Webb.
Also rent the movie: Thanks From A Grateful Nation.
A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions.
Anne Hathaway: 1556-1623
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Louis Pasteur
Re-integration
The next few years are going to be very different for American society as a whole, starting with whenever the announcement of any type of withdrawal, lowering of troop numbers, etc. Right now, people are coming back from Iraq, and people are leaving, but when more and more people are back in the US to stay, there are going to be a lot of issues that we as a society are not prepared for. There will be a lot of people who have experienced combat, and the associated traumas (both physical and mental) that come with that, and they are going to need our help to be able to come back from Iraq and get their lives back to normal. This is not just for the people who were seriously injured, but for everyone. There will be an influx of veterans who are in need of jobs, many of which have training in various skills useful to civilian life. There will be a lot of veterans with debt problems due to shady lenders that prey on military services members, not to mention that it's hard to stay on top of financial obligations when you are being shot at. A lot of people will need physical therapy for injuries sustained, a lot of people will need counseling, and a lot of people after a few months may need a place to live and foot to eat. It will just be very different from now.
I hope that the new congress spends some time and money in order to help the soldiers that are overseas currently with each of their eventual returns back to contemporary American society. I hope they do a better job than the last few.
Ordinary xtra, I thank you for sharing your story
with us.
My brother also returned home from Vietnam.
He carries psychological scars from that war to this day.
He was never the same- How could he be?
I substitute teach in our local high schools and it just kills me to see
some of our graduates being recruited for this insane, on going
war with no end. The troops have no Commander-in- Chief. They have
an ego-maniac who sees changing the course of this war as a personal
defeat. What an idiotic conclusion that is, when we are talking about
thousands upon thousands of lives. They are American lives
and Iraqi lives. They are also the lives of soldiers from around the world.
We have a tendency to forget that.
I attended the funeral for one of our students, Jose Garibay.
Jose was one of the earliest casualties in Iraq, he was killed
two weeks after the war started.
One of the most touching scenes I have ever witnessed was when
the row behind me, filled with veterans in their 70's and 80's all
stood up to salute this young man's casket as it was carried out
from the church. Jose was 22 years old- my son's age.
God Bless you.