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I think i am finally beginning to understand just how emotionally/ mentally disturbed my husband really is. I have been doing a litle more research on PTSD. I am sad to say I have only done a small amount previously, i guess I just didn't want to know the extent of it..... Sad i know. Well anyway as it turns out 38% of marriages fail with people who suffer from PTSD (this from the VA website on it) In a way this makes me feel a little better because maybe it isn't really all my fault. but I want to be in the 62% instead of the place where I am currently stuck.
D has screammed to me recently (this am) that the VA doesn't work.. and it is a waste of time. THis is scary because without help I am afraid what the end of this road will bring.
D also said some other scary things.... today on September 11th when we are recognizing just what a sacrafice was made by all mililtary people for the loss our country suffered seven years ago, D is feeling like it destroyed his life, that it has turnned him into a man he himself can not even like. I just feel such pitty. Because I know he is not alone. He is like so many others out there who have fought for this country. For the freedoms we take for granted, to protect us from futher loss like the ones we suffered only seven years ago. And even though he willingly made this sacrafice, joining after september 11th, to fight for a cause he believed in, to make a better future for his children and any other children out there- it would just be nice to see people supporting the loss of these men and women have suffered a little more, rather than protesting. (did these people ever stop to think their freedom to protest was given to them by the country they so fully protest)
I mean I get that things have gotten a little out of hand and maybe went farther than anyone at first projected, but come on people the last thing these men and women need when they step off the bus and plane coming back from HELL is to be made feel like everything they had done was for nothing- that the war goes on, and they are still unappreciated and what they did is looked upon with disgust rather than gratefulness. Maybe just maybe if more people showed there support these men and women coming home wouldn't feel so worthless.....Maybe you dont' agree, maybe we shouldnt' be there, but your actions they aren't just affecting the president, and the senators etc who really make this final call, they are affecting the tired soldiers coming home already beaten and battered inside and out only to be welcomed to an unappreciative society. ( I would like to say there are still many people who fully appreciate them- who support them and what they have sacraficed, and to you I feel like truly exteding a heartfelt thank you )
I am not overly political nor do I really know a lot about why or why not we should or should not be continuing the struggle in Iraq but what I do know is that for all the men and women who have given there life fighting for the cause they believed in for following their country with pride and being heros thinking not of themselves but for the greater good, we can not just walk away and pretend like nothing happend... we can not let them die in vain. What do we do I have no idea, but lets all just start by respecting what these men have done.
You do not have to agree with anything I said or like it but I am venting it here on thoughts - because these are my thoughts and my opinions and I felt the need to get them all out, because everyday I go home to a man who suffers everyday from the sacrafices he has made.
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Posted by jwtkwiu on 2008-09-11 14:30:06 | Rating: | Views: 55
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Well JW I think you are doing it just by speaking on the subject. I would say that for the most part most of us over here feel loved and respected by our countrymen. I personally have never been disrespected for being a Soldier. I am sure there are people out there who have experianced it, and shame on those who would do that to the Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines of our great country! I can not speak for all of the Soldiers but I can guarantee you that there is at least one Soldier over here that does not agree with being here. But we are Soldiers and we do as we are ordered. I think I had a discussion on this in one of the forums a while back. I appreciate your words and I am sorry that your husband and your family has to go through the difficulties that war leaves behind. Each person deals differently. But just know by putting you words to this blog you are doing a small part in your support of our men and women at war and our country they support!
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Posted by Evetspordlaw
on 2008-09-25 16:40:11
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