RE: Remembering Dad

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What lovely memories of your dad, Shadows. You must be very proud of him and it would seem the feeling was mutual. I could not imagine having to be subjected to direct warfare as your dad was in WW2. I'm happy for you that you had a close relationship with him into adulthood. My Granddad fought in the war too, in Egypt. He returned from the war, became an alcoholic, lost a leg whilst inebriated, trying to shortcut under a train that was shunting. Later literally smoked himself to death on nicotine and my grandmother and my parents had the burden of having to care for him for the last few years of his life whilst he was bedridden. Its sad what men and women in service have to endure, long after the last guns have fallen silent. !LUV !ALIVE

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A lot of returned vets self-medicated with alcohol and destructive behaviours. PTSD wasn't understood like it is now. It was a couple of years before dad died we were on the phone one evening talking about the issues many of the Afghanistan veterans were going through.

He made the comment that he didn't understand it, 'this stuff didn't happen with us WW2 guys". I paused a moment and said... "you know dad, suicides were always kept quiet in your time. Doesn't mean they weren't happening. PTSD wasn't recognized then, doesn't mean guys like you didn't suffer from it. Think about your hair-trigger temper. That is a classic symptom."... he didn't say anything. I think he understood at that point.

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Yeah, sounds like you connected the dots for him nicely. And you know, if he was self-aware in terms of his temper... then this connection to PTSD for him probably really helped him to be more gentle with himself 🤗 !LUV

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