Yes it is a shame, Troy...
Combat PTSD
Sometimes I feel that it's all right to post about...my rapes...but not about the events in Nam that broke my spirit for a very long time.
It was reality for us on a near daily basis.

I had a bit of a trigger yesterday. I was watching the news about the Israeli crap when they showed a small child being carried to a hospital for its' wounds...
We had that happen
only the baby was booby-trapped underneath the rags
killed:
the medic who unwrapped it...he had 7 weeks until his flight on the Freedom Bird
several of the wounded we worked hours to stabilize
frags on the left side of my body

naw, things like that didn't happen
nurses didn't get wounded/raped/etc.
priests weren't tortured and decapitated
troops didn't come in from over the fence exhausted, dehydrated and ravenous, and stinking--but they were alive
alive

I'm in a pissy mood and should probably delete this...
but I think of our troops and know they are going through similar things and for what

When my butter bars slid off, I wasn't very happy. it meant I had done such a good job...getting an early promotion for not puking and being a champ about holding my pee

Cap