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greeneke2greeneke2
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So I hopped on CNN this morning and this article was on the main page and I decided to read it.  It was heart wrenching.  If you have the time go ahead and read it and watch the video. 

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  • mob2689mob2689
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    edited December 2011
    @ Green, what a plain as day recount of what the men and women go through when they come back. I so wish they had all sorts of programs in place on a much bigger scale then what they did when they came "home". You would have thought that Vietnam was a good example of what needed to be in place "this time".
     
    I worked with this guy at a hospital, his wife and her platoon were one of the first to go over from our state a few years back when it all started.  She came back blind in one eye and deaf. The trips to Walter Reed were alot.  The toll it took on both were immense and sort of the same thing happened as in this video. She was discharged from the hospital and more less told there you are ok to go home now. Seriously? No counseling, no nothing? The VA hospital here weren't any help to her or others who needed so much more.

    I just had a conversation about this subject with my DD yesterday. Her Fi was suposed to go with his men, had the orders and all for his 5th tour, but what happened next about a month later which was rare, they scratched that order for him and now has orders to a more permanant base where he will be there for a few years instead of a few months. He had to prepare all the papers for each of these men and hand them to them. I pretty much told her all we can do is pray that all those men he was to go with all come back safe. The toll that alone knowing that he was to be there with them and the guilt that he may hold if any don't come back safe may be immense. I know it's far different from this but the havoc it plays all around the board is immense.
     
    I will add we do pray everyday for everyones safe return every day but it just got closer to "home" for us. I have met all of these men that went. I had 2 I was realy fond of and had my own Nick names for them, here they liked mine so much better they nixed the other nick names LOL

    As for the gentleman's statement, to where people come up and shake his hand for his service that made me stop and think. What do you say? We on the other end know it's only the right and true, honest thing to do. I never thought of it until he stated how it affected him in this video. I think I will still say thank you, but also add a few more things when talking to them. I am one of those people that if I see any man or woman in uniform I will go directly up to them and talk to them. I usually see them mainly in the airports, and on all the Federal holidays. The ones that have served and ones that are serving now.

    As you it, it wrenched my heart , and by no means am I saying this sarcasticly, but thank you for sharing! It had made me more aware of what to say to these brave and beautiful men and women who do come home.

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  • greeneke2greeneke2
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    edited December 2011
    My FI is the same way.  He says the statement the man in the video makes that he doesn't like when people thank him, because most really have no idea.  

    But that article is actually going to have three parts and I think it said the next one comes out tomorrow and I really can't wait to read it!
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  • firsttimersluckfirsttimersluck member
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    edited December 2011

    My fi likes the "thanks" he gets... I think because, while no one knows what it's like being military unless THEY are military (or former) at least them saying thanks means they aren't one of those people talking a buncha sh*t about them. I know a lot of times they can come off ingenuine or like an after-thought, but at least it's better than being yelled at for being a military man (we've been yelled at before.)
     
    Like mob said: I am one of those people that if I see any man or woman in uniform I will go directly up to them and talk to them. I usually see them mainly in the airports, and on all the Federal holidays. The ones that have served and ones that are serving now.

    I'm totally the same way. I can't help it. Growing up as a military brat and now a military spouse, I have the urge to thank everyone that serves. 

     
    WOW I can't read articles like this without getting tears in my eyes. :( This just makes my heart ache, although I'm happy you posted it for us all to read.

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  • mob2689mob2689
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    edited December 2011
    Green,do you know if  the second part come out today?
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  • greeneke2greeneke2
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    edited December 2011
    Umm I forgot to check!  I'll do that now!
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  • SamiJoeBSamiJoeB
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    edited December 2011

    Wow... Thats all I can. I've cried through both parts of that I can't wait to read the last one...

    It's so heartbreaking, what he, and countless other SM's have been through, and that for the most part the public doesn't realize or care.. It really does break my heart.

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