Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Post Traumatic Stess from War

    I thought that the video was well put together. It really opened my eyes and I'm sure that it opened others' as well. Most people probably don't know how much goes on over in the war. I know that I don't. All that I know is that it can really mess a person up.
    My grandpa was in the Vietnam war. He was over in Vietnam for a long time, considering that's what my mom says. My mom said that while he was away it was a really hard time for her and the rest of her family. When he got back, my mom said that he would wake up screaming in the middle of the night and crying. My grandpa has this issue where he shakes all of the time and it's hard for him to eat because of that. He shakes really bad and has to take medicine for it. He has went to the doctors' and they can't find anything wrong with him. My mom thinks that it's just from being at war for such a long time.
    My moms' friend Nicole is going to Iraq in November. She will be gone for seven and a half months. She is also in the Airforce. When she deports, she will go to Iraq and do office type work. Even though she will be working in an office, she will have to carry guns and ammo on her. The other day she said that the places she is going to work get bombed every now and then. Right now, I'm terrified for her. I asked her if she was nervous in going to Iraq, but she said that she was but then she got informed that she could carry guns and ammo and a lot of other cool artillery.

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