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    I didn't write a diary about a talk to the school.  I wrote a diary about my father's combat-related PTSD…
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  • There's more to that part of my father's story that would complicate it even further, but I am brain-tired and…
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  • That is why I cannot get my brain around the idea that normally good people who are put in the…
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  • I feel compelled to share a detail of my father's story with you.  It makes me uncomfortable to put it…
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  • I have to take a break.  I'll be back.
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  • Though I agree that we must all seek an elevated level of morality, I hope you can see why my…
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  • I will admit that I was upset when I first saw this diary - I knew that it was "calling…
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  • But in refusing that order, I may have killed my friends.  Or myself.  And as I said, I have a…
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  • It's not just ignorance of the law - it is a thousand fucked-up circumstances coming together in a split-second and…
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  • Wow.  Oh, yeah I forgot.  I'm an exceptionalist... how could I ever see the victim.  (sigh)  It is "your" poor,…
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  • I made a "flight to improvement" by choosing not to judge, and it made me a better person.  I'll stay…
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  • I'm just a poor, uneducated kid from a poor, uneducated town who was "dumb" enough to be seduced by the…
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  • An example I used in another thread is this one: I am in the military.  I lead a supply convoy.…
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  • when reading your harrowing analogy was, "Well, why is this man addicted to drugs?  What brought him to this state?…
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  • are never cast aside, they are never forgotten.  If they were, there would be no PTSD, no men and women…
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  • And what a myth it is.  Might I relate a quick story?  My father's tale began with his boot camp…
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  • I can't get the link to work, is it bad or is it me? 🙂
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  • Your husband sounds like a great man, and I commend him for having the ability and courage to make what…
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  • I am so sorry!  I can't tell you how much I wish that we never had to ponder these things.…
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  • I also wanted to say that I, too, wonder about the true mental health of those who seem "all right",…
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