Posted on 01/25/2015 6:33:57 AM PST by paterfamilias
My dad was career Navy, and I was a dependent overseas during the Vietnam conflict. Like many others in the Seventies, I stood by silently while I let liberals trash our veterans.
I vowed, when I realized what had been done to those men, that I would never let their slanders go unchallenged again. I had the opportunity to do just that over the last decade when liberals were trashing our veterans outside Walter Reed, and the DC Chapter of Free Republic went out to face them every single Friday night for years.
I was fortunate to be able to stand with them on many occasions, and even with the other things I have tried to do as a civilian to help our troops, those were more rewarding experiences than nearly anything else.
He did not want to taint his wife with what he had seen, but you have to talk about it.
IF you are allowed to talk about it...
And that is another entire concern.
Some are forced to live separate secret lives.
That is rough on the marriage and it is rough on the furniture.
xlnt.
I highly recommend the movie
Absolutely. I don’t know how those people do that job. The few times I have come across a wreck as the first person, and that dread feeling as you approach the vehicle...”what are you going to see?” is unfathomable to me that people could work through that all the time.
kudios also to Bradley Cooper for putting it up on the screen
I just deal with it, triage, get help.
Then you deal with the trauma later.
I am very proud of my Nephew who went to Afghanistan as an officer and Medic, though I knew he would never be the same.
Then you deal with the (personal) trauma later.
Why don't you explain to us what God wants.
It would be helpful if you explain how and why he chose you as his modern day mouthpiece.
That would be a good study, how the individual transitions into civilian life with or without a military mentor and correlate it with their experience with family before, during, and after service. Takes a second to become wounded but can take forever to heal. Knowing the predispositions and common reactions could be used to get on track faster.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3248698/posts
I am sure you know better than most. I work in Radiology, so I know how difficult it is to do your particular job and avoid burnout.
God bless ya brother .
I don’t do that for a living though I used to be a first responder.
I still follow the basic rules.
You do what you need to do.
It settles in later.
Back at ya, FRiend...
Heya LS, how’s things?
I thought that was an interesting point you made about the music, because I noticed that, and completely forgot about it.
He used music very, very sparsely. Very interesting.
And I appreciated your review. Spot on.
Many of the old films dealt with “modern” issues.
This gentleman had been in the Wehrmacht on the Eastern front and had spent a year in a Russian prison of war camp. At the end, the Russians opened the camp and told them to go home. He walked across Poland, back to Stuttgart, found his wife in the ruins, and they walked to Bremerhaven and left for America.
When I was stationed in Stuttgart Germany, he refused to visit us there because his hatred of what the Nazis had did was still too great.
Thanks. Yes, much as he did in Flags of Our Fathers (where he did the music himself). It’s interesting too that “Lone Survivor” didn’t evoke this kind of mania, I think because you really never got to feel like Luttrell had any weaknesses. He was superman. But Kyle clearly has demons he must conquer.
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