Oh so right ...
1. Rape - and who would you tell about it at the time ... anyone you told would say something about having put yourself in a bad position ... like it was your fault.
2. Blown up babies - and the liberal do-gooders in the USA would blame the soldier for triggering the booby trap. Can you imagine? What kind of ppl would booby trap a baby?!? A kind of religious fanatic to whom life means nothing except another revolution of karma -- outrageous ... those scenes and many scenes of combat trigger me two, but if I'm with others, I just bury it, fight back the tears.
3. You saw first hand what it was like for someone scheduled for rotation to get blown up. It happened so often in the field that I tried to send troops to the rear when they had 30 days left. We couldn't get all of them out of combat, but we tried.
4. You're a hero, Capp ... a real hero. thank you for all the troops who passed through your care center.
T.
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Originally Posted by Capp
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
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