{"id":381,"date":"2005-11-17T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2005-11-17T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=381"},"modified":"2005-11-17T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2005-11-17T07:00:18","slug":"111105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=381","title":{"rendered":"11\/11\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veterens Day. The front page of the Cleveland Plain Dealer <\/em>carried a story about a Marine Veteran who said he grew up watching war glorified on such shows as: Combat<\/em>. After he got into the Service, he did tours of Vietnam and Iraq and said he saw the real<\/em> reality of war… I’d recently interviewed Cleveland’s John Smith (not his real name), a Veteran who has also seen the reality of war. He was a medic who developed Post Traumatic Stress and has undergone an extensive amount of counseling through VA Hospital programs… Several years ago, I interviewed another former Army medic. He lived in the state of Washington. He was at “Hamburger Hill” in Vietnam, the second bloodiest battle in that war’s history. For three days, he said he was on the hill, amidst a constant firefight, attending to soldiers. When the battle ended, he said he (almost robotically, read: in a state of emotional disassociation) walked down the hill, found a tarp and curled up under it in a fetal position. He was airlifted out, and eventually was sent back to the States. Out of the Service, he got a small house boat on a slough of the Columbia River — and rarely left it. (A dimension of his PTSD was agoraphobia.) When he did infrequently leave, he’d take a small skiff and go down the slough to a railroad bridge that reminded him of one he knew in Vietnam. There, he’d camp for weeks at a time — away from everyone. Note: <\/strong> As a formal mental health counselor, I know about the various symptoms of PTSD. And I know how real (another ‘reality’ of war), and debilitating, they can be. It is my belief these Veterans should have every counseling avenue imaginable available to help them heal. And even at this, I don’t think people ever really<\/em> heal entirely from war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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