I'm an old USAF guy but did my deployment on foot patrols, dodging IEDs (we didn't know what to call them), doing combat first aid with no training, taking mortars and heavy weapons fire every night, just trying to make it one more day. And all these years later, I'm still just trying to make it...
My country told me that I needed to go as an unarmed peacekeeper. It wasn't anything I wanted to do. I was in a multinational force with each of us wearing our flags on our shoulders. EVERY PERSON in need came to me as the only American because they believed in the good that America represents...
I spent 15 years denying I had PTSD because I thought it meant I was weak. I find comfort in the thought that others stronger than me fight the same demons every day.
I'm old. THis isn't my music. But this is who I am. Please keep speaking for us. No one gets it. No one knows what we carry every day. I just want to be what I was before I went. I just want to erase everything that is in my head. I just want to be the me that was. Soldeir hard --- you a...
I'm an old USAF guy but did my deployment on foot patrols, dodging IEDs (we didn't know what to call them), doing combat first aid with no training, taking mortars and heavy weapons fire every night, just trying to make it one more day. And all these years later, I'm still just trying to make it...