Letters to the Editor
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Garry
"He never spoke of it to me. I had to learn it all from the After Action Reports and the Daily Journals with their hour by hour radio logs I got from the National Archives. I understood too late, because he had passed away, the reasons why he was they way he was, sometimes violently angry, sometimes depressed, almost always carrying something inside him that could not be shared with anyone. The acronym PTSD had not been coined back then. It was very hard on us kids. We never knew. We thought we had displeased him and his behavior was our fault."
Holy crap!! Me too. My father was in the Pacific. Never talked to anyone about it, but came home a depressed and violent alcoholic, and according to family friends, a completely altered person. Died of it at the age of 54, fighting demons no one else understood, until the end.
And here we go again.
Maybe you've seen this...but anyone who wants a real look at what our troops are going through should read this and think about it as the people who are fueling this absurdity go Christmas shopping as usual. It makes you really wonder how any of the people who constructed this war can claim they sleep at night.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121407I.shtml