Sad Story

[TheBarrett]

Originally Posted by Rev

A friend of mine fought in Vietnam in special forces. He would spend long stretches of time in the field, alone (often living off the land).

When he came home he was totally different. His wife would wake up in the middle of the night and find him behind the chair in the bedroom holdling a knife.

It took him MANY years, and a lot of counseling, to get past it.

Vietnam was really an uncalled for war, but it happened and everything's past.

The effect it has depends on the natural mentality and nature of the individual soldier.

One of my father's American friends served in Vietnam, and he has never shown any problem of the sort, somehow he was just more gay and happy afterwards.

I could say this particular friend of my father's is a total trigger-happy nutjob who loved war, but the truth is, how high is everyone's breaking point...

[Toc De Mac]

War will mess you up...

And all for what?

[Tye]

My great uncle fought in Vietnam, and he came home obviously stressed out but he didn't suffer from PTSD. And now, he's one of the nicest people you could meet. However, everyone of his friends who made it back alive ended up committing suicide.