[JonPop]

Why? Maybe it's because this is my 1776 post. Ta Da. Whoot!

[kingpole]

Congrats JP, I also feel patriotic, But im catching up to you, heheehehehehehehehehehe!

A lot of the patients I took care of over the years were Vietnam Vets. A common feeling among VV is that they suffer from rejection which increases the intensity of thier conditions. This nation did a dis service to the VV.

[jayhawk11]

It's funny you mentioned the Vietnam War. I was going to watch Full Metal Jacket tonight.

[going411by7]

Originally Posted by kingpole

Congrats JP, I also feel patriotic, But im catching up to you, heheehehehehehehehehehe!

A lot of the patients I took care of over the years were Vietnam Vets. A common feeling among VV is that they suffer from rejection which increases the intensity of thier conditions. This nation did a dis service to the VV.

Kudos to you, Kingpole, for helping these guys who were treated so shabbily after they returned--a blight on our nation's honor. I pray we don't repeat this with the heroes returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. They deserve the best treatment we can give them. They have given some of the best years of their lives for us.

[JonPop]

When I came home, I was messed up. I had been wounded, I was forced to leave the people that I dearly loved, "my brothers" and was in emotional turmoil from being yanked out of combat with all the shit going on around me and expected to put all that behind me and become a normal civilian again. Doesn't exactly work that way.

There was no decompressing, no counseling, in fact I was discharged as soon as I was able to leave the hospital and had to make my own way home. (From Womack Army Hospital at Ft. Bragg NC to San Diego.) It was a very traumatic time. I came home with some serious issues and headed for a severe drinking problem.
Drugs and alcohol almost cost me my marriage. The only people I was comfortable with were vets.
Thank God that my wife stayed with me even though I was a mess and an ass hole. I would be dead or in prison now, if it weren't for her.
Now, thank the Lord, the men and women that come home are offered a wide array of counseling and rehab. It was a very different Army back then.

Thank you for trying to understand.

[kingpole]

Originally Posted by JonPop

When I came home, I was messed up. I had been wounded, I was forced to leave the people that I dearly loved, "my brothers" and was in emotional turmoil from being yanked out of combat with all the shit going on around me and expected to put all that behind me and become a normal civilian again. Doesn't exactly work that way.

There was no decompressing, no counseling, in fact I was discharged as soon as I was able to leave the hospital and had to make my own way home. (From Womack Army Hospital at Ft. Bragg NC to San Diego.) It was a very traumatic time. I came home with some serious issues and headed for a severe drinking problem.
Drugs and alcohol almost cost me my marriage. The only people I was comfortable with were vets.
Thank God that my wife stayed with me even though I was a mess and an ass hole. I would be dead or in prison now, if it weren't for her.
Now, thank the Lord, the men and women that come home are offered a wide array of counseling and rehab. It was a very different Army back then.

Thank you for trying to understand.

When a soldier is discharged they should drive him /her to thier doorstep. A lot of the soldeirs that are involved in this war had good stable jobs they had to give up in order to protect out national ass. At least we can do is help the poor guy home. Set him back in his original job or a suitable one and for christ sake treat them faster w/o red tape when they get injured!!!!!!.

Even in the eighties and nineties these VV men i took care of, most quadroplegic from thier wounds were still being denied services, this heats me up!

[remek]

Originally Posted by JonPop

Why? Maybe it's because this is my 1776 post. Ta Da. Whoot!

Happy Independence Post, JP.

[skyfalcon888]

Kudo's JP for underlining "UNDER GOD" not many ppl today have to balls to do it! I'm happy to know that there are still people who arent afraid to say that!