why am i spilling my brains to the world it could be there was never really any help here in america . the training teaches you to keep to yourself under all circumstances . I brought that home and hello problems. In the nam after spending 30 days in the jungles we made contact twice yet we new we were being followed . It got to the point were what the buck am i doing in this mud so drugs and alcolhol become the answer to all answer yet inew it was wrong not believe in the war . I PAID the price of feeling like my job was to come home alive and that is all. yet there were other soldiers that still went out there for what . it tool a tole on me and probly will the rest of my life. iwanted apologize to this country for feeling what i new was safe and just maybe i have my life back in america, so it feels good to confess my hang up even if my hands are shaking. the other side is waiting for me and its not suiside its what can i do to better this world . thanks for the time you read this.
2006-12-24 01:15:07 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
What can you do to better this world? That is something you have to figure out for yourself. I work for a small non-profit charity in my spare time. I had no idea when I got into it that it could possibly take up most of my spare time. But on the other hand it is helping out children in a time of crisis.
I have a brother that came back from nam all drugged up and that is how he spent the remainder of his life. On drug from the doctor and lots of jack danials. He lived his life to the fullest while alive, but left a in its wake lots of hurt feelings with him family. Than he died at 42 of cancer.
Please find something to do with your life by helping others. Anything. Serving at a food kitchen. Or at the disabled vets hospital. There has to lots of places your hands could help out.
As for wanting to just come home alive? That is survival. I believe that to be a normal reaction to a scary hard situation.
Good luck and God Bless you.
2006-12-24 01:24:31 · answer #1 · answered by goldensparkler61 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I went to a Landmark Education course, and I learned this: The story you tell is just your story. It's what you choose to tell. If you choose to make your story that you went to Nam and are still suffering from it, then that is your choice. You CAN make other choices, plenty of vets do.
There is a lot you can do with your life to make the world a better place but only you can figure out what that means to you. It might mean taking an hour to donate blood -- even for research -- to help someone else. It might be visiting children in the cancer ward. Or taking a homeless vet to lunch at McDonald's and listening to his story. Or visiting a VA hospital tomorrow to sit with an Iraq war vet and listen to him/her. There are thousands and thousands of things you can do, and you can start immediately. Don't let your life pass because you are mentally still in Nam. Get out into the world and make your difference. People out there need you.
2006-12-24 23:55:49 · answer #2 · answered by Katherine W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u did what u had to do at that time and thats it!go-forward in body and mind and dont look back .regards INFOBOD,merry xmas
2006-12-24 09:38:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋