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🇺🇸 Vietnam Vets Journey Back to Vietnam After 55 Years (AARP Article)

SummerOnTheWay1 — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 15:00:48 GMT

ANY MILITARY OUT THERE? 🤔 THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!! 👵

Veterans Return to Vietnam, Carrying the Spirits of Their Fellow Servicemen.

Nearly 400 miles biked across the Central Highlands during 11 days in March.

By Aaron Kassraie, AARP. Published March 21, 2024.

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Re: 🇺🇸 Vietnam Vets Journey Back to Vietnam After 55 Years (AARP Article)

JohnW150496 — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:39:05 GMT

Thank you for your service! Wonderful of you to do that. But...anyone considering doing that, returning to Vietnam, should really be first assessed by a professional counselor, for any lingering PTSD. PTSD is an unusual illness.

I have it.

Not military related. I was a violent crime victim. Kidnapped and held for a time. I was jumped off the street. Did not notice it at the time, but a car backfired a couple of blocks away when was taken. For 8 years if I heard a car backfired, I would have big problems.

It is like a problem with the brain and how it gets re-wired. Weird things can trigger it.

Best to have a professional reign in...

Re: 🇺🇸 Vietnam Vets Journey Back to Vietnam After 55 Years (AARP Article)

Tempest332 — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 03:35:16 GMT

I was in a rehab ward after my accident with some vets coming back from 'nam, so had the chance to hang out, watch TV with them (you didn't get TV in your hospital rooms like now), then with some of their injuries there are things you can't un-see, & develop an alternate view on how frail life is.

Some of them gave me comics & better yet Mad Magazine, where I developed most of my political opinions at a very young age.