Vietnam Vets: After the Vietnam War Ended What Were Some Mental Issues You Had to Deal With?
Question by : vietnam vets: after the vietnam war ended what were some mental issues you had to deal with?
I have a humanities report due about what were some physiological issues vets had to deal with upon coming home from the war. Such as suicide, drug addiction, alcohol addiction, or Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. I don’t know any vets and would really love to get the perspective from real vets. How were you treated by other people when you got home?
Tell me your story, please!
Best answer:
Answer by Gray Wanderer
Don’t get your hopes up. You are asking strangers to open up their most painful secrets online for the world to see. If you want Nam veterans’ stories, talk to Nam veterans you know or go volunteer at your local VA Extended Care Facility.
Answer by Wayne C
The age range is from as high as 81 down to 56. There are a few in here but not too awful many. Even then this site is littered with clowns posing as many different things.
In short the bulk of what has been told about Viet Nam is myth. The stories of rampant drug use, rapes, murders, burning of villages is a bunch of BS made up by anti war activists.
I know 17 refugees from Viet Nam…one of them a lot better than the others…wink wink. She did not come here, her sister and brother in law did not come here, none of the others came here because US Forces were doing all this crap. Thomas was ARVN, a Major, from 1955-1975 in the Delta. He knew WTF was going on. He wants to cut off certain body parts from John Kerry. Does this give you an idea of how the Vietnamese feel? Helen has my Basic training photo in the kitchen at their business. Nothing but Vietnamese there and most are family and none are offended by my 18 YO photo. Some ask if I know who it is as I don’t look anything like that now.
Look at the links and know this. Some were in harms way daily…most were not. Most came back without problems some did….same with Korea, WWII and WWI…and I have known Vets of those as well.
All the way up to 1982 I was getting called a baby killer and getting spit while in uniform….a problem of being @ Presidio San Francisco.
Helen and a few of her friends have told me more than once that they were glad that S. Korea, Thailand, The US, Austrailia and New Zealand sent combat troops to help. They now know all the political crap that happened here. Mostly due to John Kerry running for President. The Vietnamese language papers tore him a new opening in his backside.
The guy’s I served under said little, I asked nothing….a lesson I learned from all the WWII Vet Dads, mine included, that were around as a kid.
SSG US Army 73-82
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