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jsdwd
I have just gotten a claim approved for ptsd resulting from my service in Vietnam. Some folks have asked me if ptsd ever goes away or gets cured. I would offer the following quote from Henry Allingham, the British WW I veteran who just passed on at the age of 113.
From the NY Times:
" He transferred to the western front in France the following year, where he was a mechanic transferred by the naval air service to the Royal Flying Corps, again flying as an observer and a gunner in sorties over the battlefields of the Somme. In later life, he recalled his time in the Somme trenches as the most searing of all his wartime memories.
He described standing in water up to his armpits, surrounded by the smell of mud and rotting flesh. “I saw too many things I would like to forget, but I will never forget them, I can never forget them,” he said."
80 years later and he still was bothered by nightmares of falling in the trenches and being buried.
(Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/world/eu...9allingham.html )
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