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Not every fallen soldier meets his end on the battlefield. Many come home, bringing wounds too deep to heal with them that eventually take their life.
And some of those wounds are not physical, but emotional or mental, and these often go unseen until its too late to stop them from ending their lives, or making what remained of them worse than it had to be.
So when you think about the fallen soldiers, include these people among them, wont you?
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I do, Dorothy
I've known several who have died from their wounds or complications well after returning home, and several who took their own lives because of PTSD brought on by what they saw.
Although I received the minimum medals for serving in Vietnam, I actually served from bases outside of Nam, and merely flew close offshore, except for three very brief landings at Tan Son Nhut Air Base outside of Saigon, and many high altitude overflights while returning from the coast to Thailand.
The same held true for everyone in my Navy squadron. Whether or not the PTSD came from that deployment or others, 2 people I served with committed suicide.
So I consider all of them as victims of the war as well as those that actually fell on the field of battle. Most of those I knew that were not in my squadron, I met while doing volunteer work at a veteran's Hospital.
Holly
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
Holly
Thanks from an old Vet
Thank you for the heartfelt message my child,there are times in the past that almost overwhelmed me but somehow I got through it all.... so..thanks to all for their for the rememberance May God bless all
Yes, Fallen soldiers coming
Yes, Fallen soldiers coming home suffer physical and/or mental wounds that leave them often in a living hell as they suffer from PTSD and other maladies we can not fathom.
May Your Light Forever Shine