Posted on 07/01/2015 1:21:25 PM PDT by SMGFan
Edited on 07/01/2015 3:55:10 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) - Rosyna Stewart has had to do a bit of adjusting after going overseas to serve our country. Stewart says, "I served in Talea, Iraq for OIF. I thought maybe I'd go over there, do my job and come back." When Stewart returned she was diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, better known as PTSD. She says, "I can't say that I didn't believe in it. But I never really imagined i would be going through it." PTSD can often complicate some of the simplest tasks in your daily routine. "I see things a whole lot...
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Who are these morons that write this crap. Doesn’t this idiot know that the reason alcohol was invented was to reintegrate vets?
They did it last year too.
It’s as if we didn’t have vets for the last 240 years or so.
So what is this really about?
We all know don’t we. They are trying to destroy our complete culture from top to bottom.
And last year too.
BIG TIME.....heard today people talking about “fireworks pollution”...
worst time for that is between 9 and 10 pm on July 4th. Do not be downwind...
I saw a sign in somebody’s front yard that said, “A Veteran Lives Here, Please be Polite With Fireworks”. It did not generate a great deal of sympathy in me, and I don’t like fireworks myself.
Our three sons did combined 5 tours with USMC in Iraq. None of them is very fond of fireworks, even after 8 years now, as far as the smaller, neighborhood explosives that you hear but do not see (they are okay with the big light shows). They hope that the “celebration” comes and goes quickly.
My dad had a friend that was in the Navy during the Pearl Harbor attack.
The guy used to really go off during the 4th with all the fireworks for a number of years after the war.
My dad said “Gene” was running away from an explosion during the attack and looked to see the man next to him was running without most if his head just before he went down. Horrible memory I’m sure.
Served for 20 years with several combat tours.
I wear ear plugs on the 4th.
Our dogs have been going crazy and we have to give them their “puppy downers” every night, just to keep them calm.
I'm sure that many vets with PTSD have made plans to be somewhere quiet on the 4th, but you can't go someplace quiet every night for the two weeks prior and two weeks after the 4th.
Remember, it's the unplanned, unexpected, bangs and booms that trigger PTSD episodes. Just my $0.02 worth.
Post-Vietnam I was a little jumpy, but I didn’t yell “Incoming!” & dive under something when somebody popped a paper bag (I merely muttered “c***sucker!”).
So now there’s a movement to ban fireworks on the 4th? More lefty barking moonbat cr@p, since they hate the 4th or any patriotic observance, and fireworks noise reminds them of guns which they also hate, so now let’s make it an enviro whacko thing.
I got to agree with her back from WW II days. It went away slowly but it was not a big deal more of an annoyance.
bingo
Drama. Pure drama “look at me” BS. You might jump outta your skin, if the experience is recent you might even hit the deck.
But a lot of this is hype.
But no, we don’t use sensitivity with fireworks. Im even seeing signs now in this victim culture about no fireworks cause a vet lives on the block. Ridiculous.
Some guy with a Vietnam veterans hat on told me that because I saw a lot of combat in that theater that I obviously have PTSD and that I should bilk the system like him. I took the kinder route to telling him that he’s nuts and that Vietnam had nothing to do with that. He was obviously a scammer before he ever got over there.
If one comes back from war physically intact, then he or she should thank God. This is now and that was then. This is here and that was there. We should get on with trying to save our country. Not take it for a ride.
“Post-Vietnam I was a little jumpy, but I didn’t yell “Incoming!” & dive under something when somebody popped a paper bag (I merely muttered “c***sucker!”).”
Exactly. A little jumpy, and thinking “oh yeah”. Everyone acts like the person actually believes they are literally back in the war as portrayed in many hit movies.
Reality is jumping outta your skin at a boom, a whiff of diesel or jet fumes, or maybe a particular song,,,
good fun.
For crying out-loud. Does this crap ever stop.
“A Veteran Lives Here, Please be Polite With Fireworks”
My sign would have said “A Veteran Lives Here, Please be Polite With Fireworks, Shoot ‘em if you got ‘em”
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