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To: KobraKai

Most Vietnam vets I come across are dicks. I work cor one and he’s a good guy, but when I have to interact with any others, cor stuff like hiring a contractor for a service, and they’re wearing a Vietnam veteran ball cap, I’ll try to be respectful and strike up a normal conversation, likely mention my boss....whatever just trying to be nice, but they are mostly dickheads to talk to.
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Untreated trauma and PTSD, social rejection, years of isolation and blame can do that. They were randomly drafted so it’s not like unsavory people became soldiers. They were younger, their lives trashed, and returned to be treated like trash. The ones I have known have been more reserved that most, but good men.


11 posted on 07/23/2021 4:52:49 AM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

Understand all that. I treat every veteran with respect, (until they treat me with disrespect) especially helping the really old ones when I can if I see them at the grocery or something you know. Both my grandfathers were WWII vets, and I never saw them behave like the Vietnam guys who wear this enormous chip on their shoulder all the damn time.


18 posted on 07/23/2021 5:38:33 AM PDT by KobraKai
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To: ransomnote
Untreated trauma and PTSD, social rejection, years of isolation and blame can do that. They were randomly drafted so its not like unsavory people became soldiers. They were younger, their lives trashed, and returned to be treated like trash. The ones I have known have been more reserved that most, but good men.

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Exactly right. I belong to a group of vets and first responders. We have a thing called The Word Retreat that we take them on for 3 days, at no cost. Amazing things happen when they hear from other Veterans who have got healing from these things. I sat next to one guy who was on the verge of suicide, who now is a team leader.

In the past vets did not have treatment and still don't. The family life for many of them was horrible. Most people did think they were just dicks, but they usually didn't know why, and the families suffered, the children and wives grew up traumatized. But that does not need to happen.

Many are able to hide and suppress the past, but it always has some form which troubles them thru their life. But the good news there is healing available.

28 posted on 07/23/2021 7:51:49 AM PDT by norsky (<a href=></a> <img src=""></img>)
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