[DUMBGRUNT]

Rest easy brother, rest easy.

[South40]

[American Quilter]

He’s with God now, safe and serene, his suffering fallen away like his earthly body, his soul free and joyful. And he’ll be united with Honor again when it’s time. May God comfort his wife and children in their grief.

[GBA]

Honor pushed through the clutch of weeping family members, reared up, placed his paws on the edge and tried to climb in. Unable to comfort Baker, the lanky black dog in the camouflage-patterned vest curled up underneath.

And with that, I lost it...those losses sure do take their toll and I guess I must have been holding too much in for too long.

Praise to you, Heavenly Father, for giving us dogs.

Good boy, Honor. It's not your fault, boy, you did your best and you made his bad bearable until his worst got finally got him.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Baker told his sister that, while in the desert, he'd stumbled across an Iraqi soldier and shot him when he reached into his uniform. The man, he later realized, was reaching for photos of his children.

He's suffering from PTSD because of people he killed in wartime and to redeem himself he commits suicide by cop, thus forcing some poor cops to have to live with killing him and possibly suffering the same effects.

[Little Bill]

Don't take this wrong but I don't understand PTSD. I grew up in an old industrial city and ALL my pals, about 50, served in Vietnam, mainly as grunts.

All came back and after a period of adjustment got jobs, got married, and retired to Florida.

I did two tours in Vietnam and saw two cases of people flipping out. Both were long service types who served in Korea. The worst was a fellow Squad Leader who during TET ,when we were getting hit with rockets and mortars all day and all night, wrapped himself up in flack jackets retreated into a bunker and refused to come out.

Aside from that I never saw a case of PTSD after I got out just adjustment difficulties that went away in a few months.

[ponygirl]

About 2 months ago, I found this extraordinary paper online about Post Traumatic Stress and how the author was proposing it not be classified as a "disorder," but as an injury. He detailed very specific research about the damage done, the how and the why the symptoms can actually become worse over time if left untreated. It was sourced with a huge bibliography in the back. The guy was affiliated with an naturopathic center, but the paper covered all types of treatments, including western, eastern and alternative therapies (such as service animals). When I bookmarked the page, something told me to also print it out, so I did. It's still sitting here on my coffee table because I haven't finished it yet (it runs 77 pages).

I was going to link to it here, but it is GONE. It's gone from the website without mention, and the paper has been deleted from Google docs. I cannot find the paper anywhere on Google or in the Wayback Machine.

Why?

[Joe 6-pack]

WOOOF!

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[berdie]

Tragic story.

[afraidfortherepublic]

What a powerful and sad story!