Donna Boyce Forrester
I cannot imagine what you went through. It is not weak to ask for help.

Jim Bagnell
The Government could find the Cow in Canada that started Mad Cow Disease, but the couldn’t find the Vietnam Vets that got sprayed with Agent Orange, or needed help with PTSD.

Rose Atkins Stalnaker
My dad became an alcoholic and we lived through drunken rages not knowing what PTSD was. He took his own life at 42. He could never accept the fact he lived while so many died, another WWII casualty on the home-front.

Jim L. Scott
I was a Ranger in Vietnam. It was 30 years being home before I ever spoke of it. It is what it is. I guess that’s all I have to say. Other than, God Bless your uncles.

Dawn Robinson
My great uncle was at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed. He never speaks of it.

Ron Hodak
I had an uncle that was one of three in his platoon that made it out of the battle of the buldge. had a plate in his head from being wounded

Stephen Bratton
I had two uncles held POW of the Japanese. One from Corregidor who is still with us and finally started talking about his experiences at around age 90. The other passed away in the 80’s. He was a retired Master Sargent and a survivor of the Infamous Bataan Death March. He spoke very little to me and even less to his and 4 children. His advise to me helped me to make the Navy a career for 24 years when I retired as a Chief Petty Officer and Vietnam Vet. I am proud of all of our military from every war. My dad and all but one of my uncles served in WWII.

June Allison Roark
My dad was with the 41st inf. div. on first troop transport to pacific after pearl harbor, 3 years in combat before being wounded on BIAK island. he died 2011, at age 93

Robert DeYoung
My dad also jumped with the 101st into Normandy on D-Day, was captured after 3 days, spent 11 mos in German prison camps before escaping

Dorothee Fochs
God bless the veterans, my husband also was a vietnam war he never was the sameagain after that he passe away in 2004, his childrens and i miss him terrible.GOD BLESS THE VETERANS

Michael Thompson
Thank you for sharing. My adopted dad Is a Vietnam vet my grandfather is a WWII vet I am currently 18 years into my service and my son is in his 6th year of service. Can’t wait to read this book. Again thanks for sharing.

Lauren Clements Anderson
Yes, the dark closet, that is a good way to describe the world of living with a parent lost in time. For us, it was especially during the long, dark days of winter, the time he was taken prison in WWII and he lived those days over and over.

Jim Loretta
War is hell. I am a Vietnam Vet and suffered coming back to taunts and cheers along with nightmares, etc caused from PTSD. I’m glad the country is welcoming home the current veterans. I hate politics as well as we had it when I was Nam as well. We love our country and will always defend it no matter what. God bless America.

Phyllis Jane Rigney
I had an uncle in a POW camp in Germany. He didn’t talk about it until he got real old. It really shook him to his core.

Jose Salazar
PTSD is no freaking joke. I’m going thru it right now. And everyday I think of our fallen heroes who passed away in iraq. Guilt will never go away.

Arthur Pelletier
Was in Vietnam 1964-1965- and 1966 was only 17 my first tour….Can’t get that hell hole outta my head… Will be 68 my next Birthday its like I never left in my head…. think about the place everyday its awful….

Del Esmane
Most in my family,on both sides served.Yours truly served in the Navy and did my tour in Vietnam 1968-69. Proud to have served our country.

Michael Honaker
It never goes away..

Darrin Taylor
I would.like to give a robust thank you to your Dad. As a member of the 502nd, My time came many years after serving in Berlin, during the cold war, Alpha 6/502 INF but our unit pride and dedication was always humbled because we had large shoes/boots to fill. Your father and the men he served with were looked up to with a respect so great because they did the impossible with the improbable daily. Again thank you to your dad and the boys he served with, they gave us the inspiration to keep our standards high as to not tarnish their hard amazing work.

Eileen Delaney Walukas
My husband was in the Tet offensive not doing very well today

Michael Filbert
I got my orders to go to Vietnam in Oct 1968, I left the states in November, I still get depressed in the fall every year.

Roger Ross
Was there in the bush, still have bad moments.

Frank Lailer
I know how it works , I went 29 years before VA would acknowledge me, I still never got it all straightened out but I can live with what I got done ! Thanks To all Veterans, we have this country , there are some that would like to throw us away and tear this country up , I hope some of the younger ones step up and take charge or it is going to be a sad state of affairs !!

Jim Wunstel
I have it in black n white, I’m in the top 95% of nam vets with PTSD. never had a normal life, feelings, or trusted our gov. again. All they can do is show you how to live with it.

Bob Rodgers
We were in Vietnam one day in combat & 3 days later we were out of the Army as civilians when we ETS’d (our turn to return home). It was tough and if you want to know how it was for us check out the last few scenes of the movie “We were soldiers”. Then about 10-15 years later it was fashionable to be a vet because we were in positions to make sure what happened to us didn’t happen to the Gulf War vets.

Tom Curtis
I was wounded in Nam . I served 67 and 68 . was discharged from Walter Reed Hospital . The transition from combat to state side and combined with being abused by citizens has complicated my life . PTSD is real and it is part of my life . I still cant go to DAV meetings or any thing to do with other solders because talk about war and that stresses me . 3 years ago I got cancer witch was from agent . I was in hospital 6 months and on vent 3 months and 2 cardiac arrests and collapsed lungs . 3 months of rehab . dont get me wrong I was proud to serve . America needs to know , that the scars remain with a lot of us for life . Now with the way the wars are now , solders have trouble adjusting to civilian life .

Barlow Jeffrey
About ten tears after Vietnam war was concluded a study of street kids in Seattle found about half of them to be children of Vietnam veterans with PTSD

Shari Greer
Our Vets deserve the best quality care available. Emotional discussion to say the least, but one that must be had. Don’t suffer in silence . You matter. Period.

James T. Dolan
My Dad was a paratrooper during WWII, Pacific Theater. Wish we had his letters home as they were lost over the years. He died four months ago at age 90. He had a lots of memories of many months at war. They were ” The Greatest Generation.” We miss him so much. He was a really good man.

Mary Kaye Manning
My Dad was killed in the battle
For Rome..mountain hand to hand
Combat.. So glad for you that your
Dad survived. This event shaped
My life and I have a good deal to
Say about the cost of war.This was
The one that was justified , certainly not secret or spoils being
Oil. Thanks for your post…

Tommy Welch
War leaves scars on all who have experienced it, took 20 years for it to catch up with me i had it but didn’t know it if that makes sense. It was there, just down deep 20 years later it came to the surface. I was lucky there was a dr. at the vet center who helped me deal with it. your husband probably never realized he suffered from PTSD alot don’t they think they’re normal when they aren’t.

Dana McAnulty Jellison
This is one of the truest illnesses (PTSD) going on in our world, in my home in fact. Remember these soldiers in prayer and the families that stand behind them.

Linda Conrad Kimsey
We civilians need to support our troops. PTSD affects everyone.

Cece Peterson
I’m very proud of my son. We wrote many letters and sent packages which also helped him keep his faith and know he was loved and missed. It amazes me how men and women can be so brave!

Joe Casadei
I had one tour in Vietnam with the 101st and volunteered to go back with the 82nd. We thru out time are A Band of Brothers.

Greg Weever
You can’t beat PTSD. You have to learn to deal with it.

William J Lane
Second hand PTSD?