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niyad

(113,074 posts)
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:10 PM Sep 2020

Daughter. Wife. Counsellor. The military was part of my life for decades. First, as the daughter of

of a career soldier. Then as the wife of a disabled, PTSD-Agent Orange Vietnam vet. (I often said that the man that I gave them was not the one they sent back to me.) Then for the decades I spent as a counsellor, working to mend the damaged minds and souls of so many of our people.
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It has taken me from the first reports last night until now to be calm enough not to write words that would call down the suits (waving to agent mikey). As much as I knew about that orange traitor's disdain and contempt for the military, to see it all laid out in one spot as it was last night made me absolutely ill. That the people around whom I spent so much of my life, knowing their stories, their pain, their heroism, their pride, should be dismissed by a traitor, made me want to scream.

I want to add something that almost never gets discussed when we are talking the military. The families of our service members. The hardships of long separations. The fear and worry. Dealing with traumas mental and physical. The secondary PTSD. The life that must go on, even when that service member did not come home. I gues that is all about losers and suckers as well, you worthless scum.

I wish for the orange traitor every minute of the suffering he causes.

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Daughter. Wife. Counsellor. The military was part of my life for decades. First, as the daughter of (Original Post) niyad Sep 2020 OP
Righteous! Nevilledog Sep 2020 #1
Thank you. niyad Sep 2020 #13
K&R smirkymonkey Sep 2020 #2
Thank you. niyad Sep 2020 #11
Thank you for this MaryMagdaline Sep 2020 #3
By the families of all service members. I wish I believed in hell, because that is where niyad Sep 2020 #5
May he spend eternity re-living the pain and misery he has inflicted upon others. NBachers Sep 2020 #4
So mote it be. niyad Sep 2020 #8
Thank you for sharing your story, niyad. sheshe2 Sep 2020 #6
(((((((((She))))))))) niyad Sep 2020 #10
It makes me sick Blue Owl Sep 2020 #7
I was just thinking about the ghost army in Lord of the ?Rings. niyad Sep 2020 #14
K&R backtoblue Sep 2020 #9
Thank you. niyad Sep 2020 #15
K&R! (nt) ProfessorGAC Sep 2020 #12
Thank you. niyad Sep 2020 #16
I wish you could say this to his face, in front of international news reporters and the entire US SharonClark Sep 2020 #17
There are so many who could speak far more eloquently than I, those who, perhaps, would not be niyad Sep 2020 #19
out of nowhere I got slapped... stillcool Sep 2020 #18
Sending virtual hugs. There are no words. niyad Sep 2020 #20
. . . niyad Sep 2020 #21

niyad

(113,074 posts)
5. By the families of all service members. I wish I believed in hell, because that is where
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:27 PM
Sep 2020

he belongs.

Blue Owl

(50,271 posts)
7. It makes me sick
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:27 PM
Sep 2020

that someone like Donald tRump is standing on top the sacrifices made by so many brave Americans who paid the ultimate price so that we could have our American democracy, only to end up with a cheating piece of fucking shit who shits on the very people who made it all possible.

It's really quite unbelievable, outrageous, and unacceptable.

SharonClark

(10,014 posts)
17. I wish you could say this to his face, in front of international news reporters and the entire US
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:37 PM
Sep 2020

military.

niyad

(113,074 posts)
19. There are so many who could speak far more eloquently than I, those who, perhaps, would not be
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 05:53 PM
Sep 2020

Tempted to break their nails. But I doubt that anything any of us could say would penetrate that barrier, that removal from normal human feeling. Even amoung the most damaged and distanced of those in my care, I never saw anything like the traitorous, murdering monster currently soiling OUR House.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
18. out of nowhere I got slapped...
Fri Sep 4, 2020, 03:59 PM
Sep 2020

Years ago, while searching for my own truth, I looked up what happens to people when they survive the daily absurdity of living in a war zone. What happens, and then what happens when they come home, and then what happens to everyone else in their orbit. And then what happens when there are generations of a family that have endured that other-worldly inhumane existence, and all its consequences. What happens when the emotional burden of something unknowable manifests itself in those that follow. I've been to many AA meetings with veterans, and I know how that unknowable speaks in silence. There is an inaudible hum that pierces the soul, connecting all those that hear it. So much power and impossible to define. That is what slapped me in the face today.

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