National PTSD Awareness Month, June 2014

[patty1943]

I have been posting all month on PTSD at my other blog http://patiencemason.blogspot.com/. You can read them all there or on my facebook book page, Recovering from The War.
Here is the first post:
PTSD Awareness month; days 1 & 2
Just posted this on Patience H C Mason, my author page and Recovering From the War, my book page

Comments

[c_maxx]

That's it, we can't fix people, or organize them, but we can love them!

Best witches!

As to the IP, sometimes stay late to take adv of the fiber optic VHS...

[c_maxx]

Reading this is a tough time for vets with the news in Iraq.

Probably even bringing up old feelings from the previous period. Most, or at least a lot of, the vets I knew in the late 70s had been trying to do what was right when in VN, so there must have been a lot of feelings of helplessness over the Communist takeover there.

[patty1943]

Yes. I watched my husband watch them throw Hueys off the aircraft carriers. That is what he flew. He loved them. He was devastated.
These new vets, my heart really goes out to them.

[c_maxx]

I'll bet! His description of learning to fly a heli was unforgettable. The whole book was, for that matter.

Yes, the new vets, with multiple mandatory deplyments, have really had a tough career.

I worked with two pilots helicopter spraying one year. They could make those machines swoop around the NW forest topography like swallows! Like spray painting a car, but in four dimensions while flying, to boot.

One was a VN pilot, he performed an autorotation for me- I didn't know enough to be alarmed- "oh, look how fast the ground is coming up!" I think he thought to see how good my nerves were and I was like, "Hmm.."

Your husband might enjoy this story- our other pilot had traded his Cessna for a helicopter, and had never had any helicopter lessons, so when he taught himself to fly it, before he learned to hover, the only way he could get on and off the ground, was to use the runway for running takeoffs and landings. It must have been highly entertaining to watch, not to mention hair-raising once he finally got in the air!