the 1000 yard stare

A video based off a poem written by a vietnam vet.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• vietnam
• war
• poem
• veteran

[angrycaveman]

i still have nightmares and flashbacks of what ive gone through

[charlie316]

im sorry to hear that mate.

[PierreReyesMusic]

Whats the song? It was on titanic too.

As for the video. It's very well put together, top marks to the producers and the guy that uploaded this.

[charlie316]

thanks. The song is Nearer My God To Thee. Also from titanic like yea said.

[KillingJokes97]

I have nightmares of my brothers dying and being tortured by those monkeys

[richardinbrum]

Check out a beautiful song "The Boy With The 1000 Yard Stare" by Big Country. :-)

[Bengelen]

@gold

No, all stress disorders are temporary. In time you will recover. It is most commonly experienced as a subjective perception of one's consciousness being detached from one's emotions, body and/or immediate surroundings. You are both conscious and functioning, but at the same time you feel like you are not really there. This can happen to anyone caught in extreme situations. Perhaps you understand better if you view them as humans instead of soldiers in an anti-war propaganda.

[Dovenpeis]

@goldbullet50 "And the only one who's willing to go war, has truly never been there before."

Adolf Hitler was a common soldier veteran of the First World War, and he was wounded at the Battle of the Somme, which gave him a two month stay at a military hospital. Just typing.

[Dovenpeis]

@goldbullet50

Yes, your eyes look weird, as in your eyes seem to be unfocused or focused on a point very far away. You look out of touch with your immediate surroundings, as in you look detached from what is going on around you. It is a combat stress syndrome.

[goldbullet50]

@laserscope1 And the only one who's willing to go war, has truly never been there before.

[goldbullet50]

@Bengelen Is it like you are example ordered to exterminate a whole village of civilians in war and you get a lifetime trauma and later when some firefight occurs, you just start staring at the horizon and get distracted from the battle and then you suddenly kinda "woke up" and realize whats going on and start fighting, or at least trying to fight? Or is it like when you kill someone, your eyes look kinda "dead", their not a "mirror of soul" anymore, just two goggling balls?

[TheSpongebobgo]

kids in my school say they're rebels. According to them, a rebel is a person who wears Che t shirts and smokes pot. A real rebel in years before would stand for a cause they built and stood for and even die for it. I know those idiots wouldn't be man enough to die for anything. They can lick my but and suck on my balls.

[1984wrx]

SPEAK UP MAN