Reply #5: How crazy is that? It's not "normal" crazy (pardon the contradiction). [View All]

You were in Vietnam, which can't have been easy to deal with.

I don't know if you ever watch the show "Criminal Minds", but this past season, they had a story about a missing man who was an Iraqi vet. He lost it one day when he was near a construction site that was really, really noisy. In his mind, he was back in Iraq, in the middle of a firefight. The team on the show, which usually tracks bad guys, figured out what was going on with him from his Army buddy, and tried to save him. He had been back in the states for awhile, and while his wife said she saw differences in him, he didn't get really bad until he was near the construction site. In the end, they killed him because he went after a kid on a bike with his gun. He was flashing back to having killed a kid in Iraq. Everyone was devastated about what happened, but they were afraid he was going to harm this kid (when in his mind, he was trying to save him).

Even though it's a fictional show, I "got it". I know that they were spotlighting the plight that so many military men and women go through after returning from a war theater.

It seems you are doing better now. I truly hope your life is good, BW. :hug: