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PTSD Awareness – Continued

This is a continuation from and conclusion to my last post PTSD Awareness Month.  As I mentioned there, I wrote the reflection in 1993 and this is the rest of that writing.  I repeat the last paragraph from the previous post to connect the two: As I grew up, the mystery of Vietnam continued to grow in my mind as explanations for Dad’s changed behavior never surfaced.  Dad drank heavily during the rest of my childhood.  I instinctively never approached him about anything, let alone ask him why he was so different from the man I had known before he left for Vietnam.  So I…

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