Maybe I'll start shooting my mouth off about meditation technics that I clearly have no idea about? Are you catching my drift?
Barry2007. You have not made any point, at all. I knew the son of a WW1 vet [that despised the war], who showed me all of his fathers paraphernalia from the trenches, & i know enough Vietnam Vets who are still periodically having nervous breakdowns.
Generally, soldiers that go to war have no idea about what they are getting into and cannot understand why they feel they do when the war ends.
Only two weekends there was an article in the Australian by SAS Stuart Bonner, who was/is struggling to come to grips with his 'strange behaviour'.
Australian soldiers suffer the same as other soldiers & their families face the same repercussions as other families.
Personally, I would happy face the death penalty before even joining the army, let alone touching a weapon.
Do you really believe hordes of men carrying automatic weapons are brave?
Military service will not help dysfunctional youth. It will simply make them more dysfunctional.
The Vietnam War was unlike any other war Australian soldiers had fought in that no one really knew how to deal with the after effects of it. Vietnam was not a war fought on open fronts, with areas of safety to which soldiers could retreat. Soldiers were constantly on alert for the enemy. Soldiers did not always know who the enemy was. The enemy could be the women and children soldiers thought they were protecting. The result was that many Vietnam veterans suffered psychological damage in the form of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
Studies have proven that, compared with other men of that generation, Vietnam veterans have higher rates of psychiatric disorders, heart disease, alcoholism and a higher suicide rate among their families. Many Veterans could not cope with the things they had seen and the stress they had lived under for two years. Many veterans also could not understand why they were feeling the way they were. In many cases, PTSD was not diagnosed until years later. Many of the men became emotionally detached from their lives. They felt they could not love or show affection to their wives and children, even years after the war was over.
