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When the very accomplished have mental illness - very sad
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<blockquote data-quote="rejectedmom" data-source="post: 511033" data-attributes="member: 2315"><p>My brother is a Vietnam Vet. When he got off the bus returning home at the end of the war, he was spat upon by demonstrators. He was an officer and a decorated hero but that didn't hep him get over the trauma that he suffered at those radical idiots hands. He carried that pain for many years and tried to drown it in a bottle. He lost so much as a result of his alcoholism. Only a stroke that wiped out a good bit of his memory gave him peace. He is now sober and proud of it and even though partially paralysed happier than he has ever been in his life. It would have been so much nicer for him to have been given help by his government. Maybe then he would have healed his pain and not have had the alcohol induced stroke. I cry when I think about him telling me that he was a horrible person because of the things he had to do in Vietnam and that there was no place for him in heaven. He started hanging out at the American legion and comeserating with other vets and drinking his job away, and drinking his licence away and drinking his family' respect away.</p><p></p><p>How do we let things like this happen? How do we go about our days and allow our government to ignore the mental traumas our soldiers and their families must live with? How do we allow idiots to spit on our soldiers and to picket the funerals of our fallen in the name of free speech? Americans seem to get rieled up at the moment it happens but then go back to their lives and forget about it. </p><p></p><p>I am speaking generally here. (The lord know that those on this board have enough to do advocating for their difficult children) I think that too many Americans say "how horrible! That shouldn't be allowed" or" that should never happen" but don't make a big enough stink to get changes effected. And so our vets' mental health needs continue to be ignored.</p><p></p><p>I have often thought of those radical extremists that met the busses of our returning soldiers and abused them like that. What has become of them? Did Karma catch up did they pay any price for their actions? Or are they living high on the hog? Breezing through life while their victims carried their scars for a lifetime.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rejectedmom, post: 511033, member: 2315"] My brother is a Vietnam Vet. When he got off the bus returning home at the end of the war, he was spat upon by demonstrators. He was an officer and a decorated hero but that didn't hep him get over the trauma that he suffered at those radical idiots hands. He carried that pain for many years and tried to drown it in a bottle. He lost so much as a result of his alcoholism. Only a stroke that wiped out a good bit of his memory gave him peace. He is now sober and proud of it and even though partially paralysed happier than he has ever been in his life. It would have been so much nicer for him to have been given help by his government. Maybe then he would have healed his pain and not have had the alcohol induced stroke. I cry when I think about him telling me that he was a horrible person because of the things he had to do in Vietnam and that there was no place for him in heaven. He started hanging out at the American legion and comeserating with other vets and drinking his job away, and drinking his licence away and drinking his family' respect away. How do we let things like this happen? How do we go about our days and allow our government to ignore the mental traumas our soldiers and their families must live with? How do we allow idiots to spit on our soldiers and to picket the funerals of our fallen in the name of free speech? Americans seem to get rieled up at the moment it happens but then go back to their lives and forget about it. I am speaking generally here. (The lord know that those on this board have enough to do advocating for their difficult children) I think that too many Americans say "how horrible! That shouldn't be allowed" or" that should never happen" but don't make a big enough stink to get changes effected. And so our vets' mental health needs continue to be ignored. I have often thought of those radical extremists that met the busses of our returning soldiers and abused them like that. What has become of them? Did Karma catch up did they pay any price for their actions? Or are they living high on the hog? Breezing through life while their victims carried their scars for a lifetime. [/QUOTE]
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