Thank you for your willingness to serve and defend our country. However, I don’t understand what you are talking about in this post.
I am a military person myself. Essentially made it a career.
What you are talking about is a legitimate concern, but it’s not called PTSD.
I have some PTSD (or had) related to a bombing I experienced on the ground. PTSD manifested as memories that were obsessive and graphic and did not fade like normal memories.
What you have is good, old fashioned, disgust.
It ain’t PTSD - it’s a bout of snowflakism in the inability to let emotions be sidelined enough to keep them from intruding in on everyday life....you say “Viet Nam era” but don’t mention that which could have caused actual PTSD....not sure what you intended but hope you feel better having “vented” whatever it was.
PS: God Bless for your service.
Is this some Q-related junk?
Welcome to the party, pal.
First, thank you for your service. I would not call your affliction PTSD. I would call it true Patriotism.
I am not a vet, but suffer from the same affliction.
I get a sneaky feeling that a goodly bunch of those SOB's that are running our nation are the ones that ran off to Canada back in the day.. Or maybe it's their liberal kids.. They have managed to foul up just about everything that that was good about America... Schools, Churches, individual liberties, even the love and respect folks use to have for our country.. Most of the young folks despise their own nation, thanks to the commie schools...
The stinking drugs that the hippies loved so much are now on every street corner and sold to any kid with the money... Pot, crack, cocaine, heroin, magic mushrooms, you name it.. Victimless crime they call it now.. Hell, it's even legal in some states.. :(
And on top of all that, we're being invaded by the stinky commies from the south and those rotton SOB's in Washington do NOTHEN about it..!!!
Name one war where the elite ruling class was punished for funding our enemy.
A couple well placed GPS bombs raining down on a big bank could end a war quickly. They are sitting ducks.
“I am a Vietnam Era Vet. At age 75” ...
Here is what works:
https://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/veterans.html
Research published in “Military Medicine” and “The Lancet”.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(18)30384-5/fulltext
https://academic.oup.com/milmed/article/183/1-2/e144/4781643?searchresult=1
Check it out - it’s what I personally found back in ‘71 after 4 years in Nam ‘66-’70.
Immediate relief and non-symptomatic in about 2 months.
For a lot of Nam Era Vets they sucked it up and buried the PTS by working intensely at their civilian jobs once home. When they retired ... up jumped the devil.
https://www.davidlynchfoundation.org/jerry-yellin-resilient-warrior-fund.html
Read this ^^^^
Jerry Yellin (1924-2017) was a distinguished US Army Air Forces P-51 fighter pilot who is credited with flying the final combat mission of World War II over Tokyo on August 14, 1945.
Older brother, what you are describing sounds like what is called “moral injury.” I wish you well and pray you find peace.
If you really are struggling with PYSD there are great treatments available ....no they don’t include drugs
"As vets we have offered some of the best of ourselves in the understanding & belief that it was for the good of our Country, not for the personal gain of an elite ruling class. I have felt betrayed by our government. Now we are learning the facts of that betrayal. Now we are beginning to see who the real enemies are & those who aid & abet them."
Thank you & other vets who served. Betrayal wounds to the very core. God grant evildoers are brought to justice and those betrayed find a measure of peace. Great Awakening indeed.