Tuesday, 15 May 2007
PTSD and Veterans: Beyond the Yellow Ribbons
These are the sort if ingorant comments that some people make about PTSD.
ArchNME (2 months ago) marked as spam
"PTSD is such a sham. I mean, yeah, you see some fucked up shit in war no doubt and it's a sobering experience. Man has been brutally murdering each other in combat for thousands of years though, it's not unnatural by a long run. These clowns just want a check every month. Lifes a bitch get over it."
I normally wouldn’t wish PTSD on anyone but I will make an exception for this dickhead.
© Mack (RG) The thoughts of a Falklands War Veteran.
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Ignorance is one of the worst diseases a man can have.
ReplyDeleteJust been reading some of the comments on Bills Southlakes site on a thread called Barrows odd characters, it brought back memory's for me to of these poor guys who obviously were suffering from PTSD, but of corse back then it had no name. Heres some below:
ReplyDeleteI also remember the Doss house on silverdale street- crellin street area...
this had many a character inside who could be seen drunk and asleep in the dirty dingy room on the silverdale street side windows... I was amazed by how many homeless people frequented this place.. times must have been tough for them !
one character i do remember from my childhood was a man nicknamed BANZAI, to my recollection he was an ex-soldier who was captured during the war and put in a japanese POW camp and tortured etc..
this poor man must have went through hell in that camp and even in the 1970's he still showed the mental scars of the torture etc.. i used to see him wandering around the town in a brown MAC, with halve mast pants and boots on...
but i cannot remember the last time i seen him... i even wonder if he is still alive... a very sad case but still a pretty well known character around the town!
hi john,
i couldnt agree with you more john, yes alot of these poor souls ended up on the streets, or in the kip house on silverdale st, after the first world war, i remember them well shell shocked this country never recognised shell shock, yes the kip house on silverdale st was full of them we as kids didnt understand what was wrong with them, shaking and acting strange, we laughed at them,
im ashamed of myself now im older and wish i could turn back the clock, and i suppose they are remembered for being characters, not the great fighting men they were.
Yeah he hasn't a clue.
ReplyDeleteHad former WW2 POW from a Jap camp up our street - his poor wife looked after him, bless her.
I think I have heard of this Jap POW Bob from when I worked on security at Vickers. I was told that he was terribly tortured and burnt and even in the hot summer would always wear a thick long coat. A tragic story. Im sure he has probaly past on now and I wonder how many attended his funeral? I hope he is at peace now.
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