this is bad to say,it will be tough to get thru, the many losses of friends and family , a person can not give up, only be prepared, many times my mind will not let me say the correct things at a time such as this, i have to go back and study on what i have said to get eveything to come across the right way. @Sedan
my next door neighbor has problem with gun fire, and when they set a big blast from the rock quarry , just the thud of the explosion makes him go inside and turn the tv up loud to drown out the outside world! i have watched and it truely sends him back in time ,to a place he does not want to go.this is something he will not talk about !
Can anyone blame him?
nam was not kind to him!
Most combat veterans have this to some degree.
very true@ttystikk
@Sedan, most critters may not react to a rifle shot but , when fire works go off the deer and bobcats don't come back thru a open field for hours and that is just fireworks! if it shakes the ground they are really in tune with things such as that around here,a blast at the rock quarry , sends a lot of critters my way deer i do not have piks of ,i keep cam out all year just to keep track of the bucks as the get some age on them , most of the time i only take does the are a lot better to eat than a buck that has been chaseing does for two months!when ice builds up on the tree limbs and they start falling the deer all go to open fields , places where you thought piks were of about 40 deer you will find more like 130 in the open fields!and the cats will still be in the edge of the timber we have alot more bobcats than we had 25 years all the old trappers have died or worked till the shoulders will no longer stand stand up to the work of taking care of the hides!cat tracks in the dust is somthing i always pay close attension to.
i do not blame him , it is because of where he was stationed ' i think some of the cleanup jobs on jeeps that had been in fire fights with people hurt bad,to say nothing about heavy equipment that snipers took care of the operator,we were working on a lawnmower deck ( replacing a bad bearing and it slipped, and cut my hand ), larry kinda freaked at the sight of blood and it was not that bad of a cut! it really made me study about what he had been thru!
I can imagine wounds and explosions but I can't imagine what it does to a person.
I've never seen such wild nature in my life. You tell me, it's like I'm in a zoo.))
Here the situation is a little different - there were 2 months of continuous bombing at the beginning of the war, Elsa was already tired of hiding all the time, so she determined critical danger only by me... not counting the cases when windows fly out...
It's like you feel an electric charge in the air, and inside you everything is like an explosion in your lungs.. I can't express it in English.. like you take a really deep breath.
