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I sent your web site link along with Huck’s VIDEO link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou7y8AyTwIY to my brother, Jim, (a Vietnam vet) today.

Thought you two would appreciate reading his response. Get a hanky.

HI GUYS;

THANK YOU SO MUCH, THESE REMARKS ARE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED ON THIS VETERANS DAY.

I REALLY HOPE AND PRAY THAT THIS NATION CONTINUES TO REMEMBER ALL THE SACRIFICES OUR MEN AND WOMEN ARE MAKING EVERY DAY OUT THERE!

ON MY LAST VA HOSPITAL VISIT I FOUND MYSELF IN A SMALL WAITING ROOM ALL ALONE WITH A YOUNG IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN WAR INFANTRY VETERAN THAT WAS OBVIOUSLY SUFFERING FROM P.T.S.D.

I RECOGNIZED HIS SYMPTOMS IMMEDIATELY, BECAUSE I WAS THAT WAY MYSELF IN VIETNAM AFTER I WAS RELEASED FROM THE HOSPITAL AFTER BEING WOUNDED IN 1967.

HIS RIGHT LEG KEPT SHAKING UNCONTROLLABLY AND HE WAS IN KIND OF A HYPER STATE, AS HIS EYES KEPT DARTING AROUND THE ROOM AND OUT THE WINDOW ETC. AND I FELT LIKE I NEEDED TO TALK TO HIM AND COMFORT HIM SOME WAY.

I ASK HIM WHERE HE HAD BEEN DEPLOYED AND HE TOLD ME HE WAS INVOLVED WITH THE FIRST INVASION OF IRAQ AND SUBSEQUENTLY AFGHANISTAN WHERE HE WAS THE VICTIM OF AN I.E.D. THAT KILLED ALL HIS FRIENDS AND WOUNDED HIM.

THEN, HE SAID THAT HE HAD JUST LOST HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN IN A HOUSE FIRE!!

WELL MY GOD, IT WAS NO WONDER THE POOR GUY WAS IN SUCH A HORRIBLE CONDITION!!

I PUT MY ARM AROUND HIM AND TOLD HIM HOW PROUD ALL OF US ARE OF HIS SERVICE OVER THERE AND HOW SORRY I WAS TO HEAR OF HIS LOSS.

I TOLD HIM I WOULD PRAY FOR HIM TO GET THE HELP HE NEEDED AND DESERVED.

THE DOCTOR THEN CALLED TO SEE HIM AND I WAS JUST SITTING THERE WITH TEARS COMING OUT OF MY EYES AS I THOUGHT ABOUT ALL THE HORRIBLE EXPERIENCES THIS YOUNG GUY HAD GONE THROUGH.

SOMEHOW, ALL MY OWN PROBLEMS BECAME MUCH LESS SIGNIFICANT.

I CAN’T GET THAT GUY OUT OF MY MIND AND I JUST PRAY HE IS GETTING THE HELP HE NEEDS!

WITH LOVE ALWAYS,

JIM