Dbernie - God gave us the ability to communicate for a reason. We all need to share sometimes. Sometimes the ones closest to us are the last ones to understand. Sometimes we don't want to worry the ones closest to us, so we share with others.
We all deal with pain periodically, but that pain generally goes away eventually. Constant pain is different. It wears on you physically, mentally and emotionally.
Yes, there should have been a welcoming committee waiting to greet you and every member of our military when they returned, but that doesn't happen.
No, you didn't ask for recognition or praise, but that doesn't mean you don't deserve it.
YOU have my deepest respect and gratitude.
YOU are the reason we are free, not the politicians.
YOU are the reason we can call or write the politicians and tell them what we think without fear of being rousted from our beds in the middle of the night and dragged off never to see the light of day again if we even live through the night.
No one who has not been in combat can understand what that does to a man. A man my father-in-law served with in the Air Force during WWII was shot down over Italy, captured and spent 18 mos as a POW. When he came home he was not functional. Each day he would get up, dress and go to the living room. He would sit in a chair and stare at the floor all day. Yes, all day. He did that for two years. He did eventually pull out of that and return to a "normal life", but he would never speak of what he went through. If he saw the vehicle of a war buddy parked in his driveway, he would not come home.
Combat changes a man. It does the unspeakable to the living and the dead.
My family has a long history of serving in the military, too. My father and my father-in-law both served over 20 years in the Air Force. My father's brother served over 30 yrs. in the Army. My father's sister married an Army officer. My mother's brother did a hitch in the Navy and my beloved husband, James, was a commissioned officer in the Air Force as a jet pilot.
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