Larry Winters: "Confession" PTSD

[risaruseartist]

What trauma has in common are thoughts that self-defeat.

Healing comes when we hear a different beat.

risaruseartist

[beachintl]

I killed many and then we partied,,,whats this boobs problem,pussy

[beachintl]

Well that was totally depressing,,,get over it and quit your whinning

[adamls1980]

I loved your poem. it has been awhile since I had a good cry. It hurts me to see fellow marines in so much pain.

[mikejackson4ever]

"It was the best of times; it was the worst of times... "

[keanghiero]

very nice.

[reywilliamr]

thanks larry

i'm there with you

bill reynolds

v v a w

[lwindy]

Bill,

Happy to have you with me. Thanks for your service and your heart.

Larry

[Hardcorediver44]

I thought I was doing the right thing when I joined the Marines,the uniform,the traveling, the excitment of training and learning things. And whn you have to put your skills to use it changes you in ways you can't even imagine. Looking through that rifle scope and seeing first hand what one human can do to another...I started to hate what I had become. A bringer of death. very now and then I see those images in my sleep.

[lwindy]

Hardcore,

Many of thought we were doing the right thing and its not our fault for that. When you grow up trusting it natural to believe what you are told. It is the hatred of self that can end and be seen as thank God you are a human that cares.

Go well

Larry

[whiskeymedic]

cross out verdunt fields of green, add sand, ever dusty silt-like sand, and you have my experience in Iraq

[lwindy]

Whiskey,

Right on the only real difference in war is landscape all the rest fits any war ever made.

[TomSmithMusic]

Mr. Winters speaks to the contradictions that became the lives of many. This continues today.

-Tom

[benedets]

Powerful, painful, poetry!  Keep speaking your truth, Larry.

[HillsideAS]

Thanks Steph, I'm sure Larry will appreciate your comment. Regards, M

[lwindy]

Benedets,

Long time to respond but I'm on line and grateful for the feedback.

L