Seems to confuse vets with combat vets, but, whatever.
I’m a vet and I don’t live in a solitary world. And, I am not alone.
Thanks for posting this. I wish the author had used a different quote from a different movie other than Platoon or no quote at all. But he did and it is OK as the rest of the article has the ring as if he had been there and done that.
It has been a very long and often lonely 50 years and to those who stood the line, “Welcome Home Brother and Thank You for your service!”
Didn’t see combat, but being called to general quarters and hearing, this is not a drill with my battle station deep in the bowels loading the 5 54-inch guns, and not knowing what was going on was nerve racking. Russian ships were always shadowing us.
(served aboard a destroyer)
We also lost 3 shipmates. In boot camp, we had 3 suicides
I propose the following and have been supported by vets to be true. This isolation is a chosen characteristic that they are trained to take on. This chosen characteristic makes healing from experience more difficult. Propping up this chosen characteristic only harms the vets.