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| Vietnam a Poem by Lee Ballinger, Los Angeles Twenty years ago when I moved to California I went to Wells Fargo to open a bank account The teller was young, beautiful, Vietnamese
My first thought was
My second thought was
I took my receipt And you wonder why I have trouble sleeping? You wonder why I broke the lamp and punched a hole in the wall?
You wonder why road rage makes me feel so good?
My body came back but not my mind
Lee Ballinger, Los Angeles |
Sermon by Reverend Kurt A. Kuhwald
The Legacy
of War: A Son's Story Sermon by Reverend Kurt A. Kuhwald,
November 12, 2006
Berkeley Fellowship Of Unitarian Universalists, Rev. Kurt A. Kuhwald, Minister
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Thank you for your work on this issue. There is a comment in the hearings
about promoting those who work on their mental health issues. That is an
excellent way to help the public and military understand that we are in much
better shape in recovery. It is the ones who are riding it out or fixing
it themselves who are likely to give up. I have PTSD and flashbacks; I am
a survivor of multiple types of abuse.
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A couple of years ago someone asked me if I still thought about Vietnam.
I nearly laughed in their face. How do you stop thinking about it? Every
day for the last thirty-four years, I wake up with it, and go to bed with
it. But this is what I said. "Yea, I think about it. I can't quit thinking
about it. I never will. But, I've also learned to live with it.
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Hi Penny, I read your book. The personal interviews were riveting.
It's disturbing that the carnage still goes on. A friend of mine from a local
boat club recently told me about his older brother. Capt. in the Marine Corps,
2 tours in Iraq. Came home to his wife and 2 kids, lived in upstate rural
New York. Wasn't home a month when he was killed in a snow mobile
"accident". more...
From: "welcomehappiness":
I am an ex British Soldier, who thought he was hard until 5 weeks ago, when I broke, I have been diagnosed with Mixed anxiety, depressive, stress disorder as a consequence of Traumas. This I am told is because you need one unique event to call it PTSD. I have been told I have suffered with PTSD and coped From the Gulf War/Northern Ireland.
I think what Mrs Coleman is doing is amazing, Mrs Coleman is fighting for
people like me who are still alive and she doesn't have to,Thank you Mrs
Coleman.