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A Secret War, Strange New Wounds and Silence From the Pentagon
NYT via Yahoo ^ | November 5th, 2023 | Dave Philipps and Matthew Callahan

Posted on 11/05/2023 10:26:22 AM PST by Mariner

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To: Mariner

I was down in the bowels of the ship, loading the guns. It was loud down there.


41 posted on 11/05/2023 2:35:32 PM PST by roving (đź‘Śâš“Deplorable Listless Vessel with Trumpitist who looks Trumpish)
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To: Mariner

Years ago I hypnotized a friend who was a sniper in Vietnam.

He began speaking Vietnamese.

I remember his letter after the event and how he described being sick for three days after confirming his kill. We removed the attached spirit and both the voices and the bizarre medical symptoms went away.

I’ve done the same with many people over the years, including nurses in hospitals.

I enjoy working with ideopathic illnesses.

I no longer use hypnosis, as I have no need for it. Last week I had to remove a young Jewish man that was killed in a car accident a few years ago and didn’t cross over. The symptoms he experienced when he was killed were manifesting in his host he attached to.

This case was odd as I usually don’t smell “spirits”, but this one had a strong smell of burnt decaying human hair and flesh, a smell that has turned my stomach my entire life.

Previously, I had a case where these two ghosts smelled of smoke. Ends up they were firemen killed in the building when it burnt in the 1940’s.


42 posted on 11/05/2023 2:46:11 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: tired&retired

Interesting. Tell me more.


43 posted on 11/05/2023 2:48:26 PM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: Mariner

Even a new low for the New York Slimes.


44 posted on 11/05/2023 2:49:04 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

It got much worse after the Vietnam War, and far worse when women entered the military in larger numbers.

If the VA hospitals would release the stats, you would see that the percentage of women with PTSD is far far higher as a percentage of their population in the military than men.


45 posted on 11/05/2023 2:52:30 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Lazamataz

I’ve done quite a bit of work over the years with veterans with severe PTSD. Back in 2002 I did a presentation for a small group of top military and CIA folks in Washington DC.(Actually it was across the river in Arlington)

It was after 911, but before Schwarzkopf led us in the first Iraq War.

I explained to the group that they would find two major differences in the upcoming war.

1. The men would not follow orders as they did in previous wars.

2. The incidence of PTSD would skyrocket.

I explained that it had to do with both the age and psychological profile of the military now, and the changes in basic training. They no longer “break” a person’s individual will to form a group identity. There are several reasons for this.

Many of the psychiatrists describe PTSD as “moral injury.” I explained to them that it is actually an “Identity Injury” and morals are just one aspect of individual identity.


46 posted on 11/05/2023 3:06:30 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Lazamataz

Ever since I had an NDE many years ago, it’s like I’ve been straddling the fence between two realities. I use the ability to help people heal soul wounds, which often involves first removing attached spirits who lost their physical bodies and became stuck here for various reasons.

People have no idea how common this is.


47 posted on 11/05/2023 3:12:56 PM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Steely Tom

You were right on mate. No beefs from me.


48 posted on 11/05/2023 3:43:07 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ViLaLuz

“Without the covering of Jesus that stuff can follow you home.”

Truth.

When the physical world goes to S#@t the spiritual world remains and carries on whether one is attuned to it or not. Best to be right with Jesus at the earliest age possible.


49 posted on 11/05/2023 3:57:35 PM PST by Justa (If where you came from is so great then why aren't Floridians moving there?)
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To: Paal Gulli

“Shell shock generally only gets to the guys on the receiving end.”

Shell shock comes to those who witness the ghastly unholy effects of war on human beings. That would be those on the receiving end as you say. One of the many reasons so many vets from the various wars can’t/won’t talk about their experiences. Too painful. Life’s a bitch.


50 posted on 11/05/2023 4:12:22 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: tired&retired

In previous wars, the soldiers went to war together and came home together and knew each other’s experiences first hand and came hoe to parades. In Vietnam they went separately and came home separately and had to deal with their experiences alone to a hostile country that didn’t appreciate them.


51 posted on 11/05/2023 4:22:16 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants ( "It is easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled."- Mark Twain)
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I read somewhere that the majority of enlisted in WWII returned in troop boats and that the camaraderie of a shared experience helped a lot of them. Now imagine being in the jungle in Vietnam or the mountains of Afghanistan and the next day, back at home the next. American’s (including myself) have no idea of what these troops experienced or how the majority of the world lives.

I worked with a lady who had sent monthly donations to a family in Central America. She went down a couple times to meet them & brought back pictures of the mom cooking over scrap wood on a grill suspended by two cinder blocks. She stayed at a Catholic Mission while there with a Walmart next door. She said it was the most surreal experience she ever had to go from visiting a family living in a tar paper room and without a man to protect them. She said the men go to other countries for several months at a time to find manual work & retrn for 3-4 months to stay with their families.


52 posted on 11/05/2023 5:03:59 PM PST by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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I can only imagine the “shock wave” impact of thousands of large rounds being fired over a short time. That has shake your head a bit.

They definitely need to look into this and help the soldiers.

53 posted on 11/05/2023 5:30:56 PM PST by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be slave in a new Socialist America.)
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To: tired&retired

Where can I go for this kind of treatment. Combat vet here, feel like I have spirits attacted.


54 posted on 11/05/2023 5:33:03 PM PST by dereknunley
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To: tired&retired

I might like to talk to you via voice.


55 posted on 11/05/2023 7:09:03 PM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: tired&retired

“It was after 911, but before Schwarzkopf led us in the first Iraq War.”

You want to read that again and make a correction? Or are you just making stuff up?


56 posted on 11/05/2023 7:28:55 PM PST by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder. )
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To: Nik Naym

Yes, Thank you.

My years were correct, but Schwarzkopf was the General during Bush Sr’s going after Sadam. That was in 1991 when the rescued Kuwait.

I did this presentation in March 2002. Everyone knew we were preparing for war after 911. I was a university professor at the time when they invited me to do the presentation.

Everything else is correct.

It’s hell getting old, and even worse recovering from surgery. Just had a lung removed and not 100% yet.

Thanks for pointing out my timeline error.


57 posted on 11/06/2023 2:02:13 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: dereknunley

Message me. I will always help in any way I can. I’m a bit under the weather right now, but will be well soon.

I do not charge anything.


58 posted on 11/06/2023 2:07:43 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Justa

When the physical world goes to S#@t the spiritual world remains and carries on whether one is attuned to it or not. Best to be right with Jesus at the earliest age possible.
........................................

So true and necessary.

For anyone here who needs the Gift of Salvation:
https://www.gotquestions.org/get-right-with-God.html


59 posted on 11/06/2023 5:19:08 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Mean Daddy

“I read somewhere that the majority of enlisted in WWII returned in troop boats and that the camaraderie of a shared experience helped a lot of them. Now imagine being in the jungle in Vietnam or the mountains of Afghanistan and the next day, back at home the next. American’s (including myself) have no idea of what these troops experienced or how the majority of the world lives.”

That happened to my wife’s younger brother, who served in Nam in our Army and to her first cousin, a US marine. One day they were in Nam and then on a flight home to Travis AFB.

Our returning troops were often spit on by young protesting Americans, when they were transported to SFO airlines to fly home.


60 posted on 11/06/2023 7:14:49 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Flu vaccines, might work, if you’ve never had that flu! Otherwise, they don't do any good/nor work!!)
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