Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Vietnam Veterans.

I am up all night. I will never be the same though, never, never, never. If I have to go into battle again, if I am not killed, I will come out insane. I cannot see and go through it again. I know I can't. The friends I lost and the many bodies I carried back to the helicopters to be lifted out, I will never forget. (1) The above excerpt was taken from a letter …showed first 75 words of 3699 total…

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