Category: Post Traumatic Disorder
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4/5/19 0825 Morgan St. Albany, GA.
The days are turning slowly to the end of our ownership here. We put the property up for sale and had an offer in three days. We took it. Selling off everything here. We have a home in Florida. This was a vacation home. Unfortunately there are problems. The primary is the medical services provided…
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Wednesday and Two Tours in Vietnam!
Good Wednesday to you all! For me it started with being startled out of my sleep. That was because I had a rough night and needed more sleep and my wife had to wake me because I had a breakfast meeting to go to. So, I changed the time and met a buddy about an…
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A Soft Tapping in Darkness Came
A Soft Tapping in Darkness Came Last night I was wakened from a deep and troubled sleeping Sleeping deep, blanket wrapped, and restless in the dark When there came a soft tapping, a gentle and easy rapping Gently placed upon the cold glass window near my bed And from that slight sound, that gentle tap,…
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Catatonic in Milwaukee
Stiffness of mind can be a problem and should be noted to tend along with a great deal of anger. I deal with anger. I have problems with anger. I can be very un-nice with anger when it overtakes me and lately it has been near me too much. I think it is just that…
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Battle Flag
Battle Flag The battle flag sudden snapped and swung up to fly in the wind Above the post on the hill that even God had not known about back then On a hot and sticky day where boys waited amid the baking heat All seemed to stand still in the sudden roar of quiet…
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VETERAN!
Copyright by Gordon Kuhn 11/10/2015 On this day the United States Marine Corps is 240 years old. I and other Marines all celebrate today worldwide. Veteran! Three simple syllables. Yet, one of the most powerful words in our lexicon. One of the most meaningful. It identifies the person so called as having a place in…
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DAN ANDERS
I lost a good friend on Wednesday, 5/6/15. His name was Dan Anders. He was a Vietnam Vet. He died at 1420 hours about 5 to 10 minutes after I walked out of his room. I had spent over an hour visiting with him and his wife. He had pancreatic cancer. He was in the…
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Dan On Friday
I saw Dan on Friday. I saw him and met his wife and daughter at the VA hospital at Bay Pines. He is in the hospice unit. That unit is unique because the people working there volunteer to be there. They are not assigned. Each has personal reasons for being there. It is an incredibly…
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Second Followup on Dan.
I learned just a few days ago that Dan had originally been given six to nine months. That was only a month back. Then the time was shortened to three months. Sadly, on Tuesday this week, Gina called to tell me that Dan was in the VA hospital and had been given three weeks to…
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Thanksgiving!
Good morning, afternoon, evening!….I have a lot of followers from all over the world. Some of you may be celebrating Thanksgiving and some of you may not. Even so, I wanted to write you and say thank you for following this site. I have over 700 people following this site. That is quite a lot…