Page 178 - Stand Down Vietnam

“… almost seven out of 10 Veterans who have committed
suicide were over the age of 50, according to a
Department of Veterans Affairs study.”

Bryant Jordan
Military.com 31
Aug 2014

Note: “over the age of 50”; ALL Vietnam-Era Veterans
are within that age group.

Many of the Vietnam “era” Veterans who never served
“in-country” experienced the effects of the war
vicariously through association with those returning
from the war. Living in military barracks with open
bays of twenty or more men was an incubator for
“Associated Experiencing” or “Dissociative Fugue”.

http://www.minddisorders.com/Del-Fi/Dissociative-fugue.html

Think what it must have been like for a young eighteen
or nineteen-year-old to witness first-hand, the shock
of war when returning Vietnam War Veterans experienced
blood-curdling nightmares – every night. I can tell
you from experience; it isn’t amusing and can lead to:

WOUNDS THAT DO NOT BLEED