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Apr 30 2013

AWTR Show 417: Army Ten Miler

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  Army Wife Talk Radio is the leading internet talk radio show for Army wives, by Army wives. AWTR is hosted by the Army Wife Network Core Team – www.ArmyWifeNetwork.com. AWTR guests bring exciting, relevant topics and resources to the attention of our military families. Main Guest: George Banker from ArmyTenMiler.com Resource of the Week:…

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Jun 21 2012

Unaware that June is PTSD Awareness Month? Me too….

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Despite the gazillion different military related sites I follow on facebook and Pinterest, despite the fact that I write military related blogs for multiple sources, and despite the fact that I’m always reading this article or that article about military life simply because I find different peoples’ takes on it fascinating, I had no idea until…

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Debbie Doss - June 21, 2012 - 3:09 pm

Once again Jenn, informative, timely, touching. Don’t know if you’re aware of it or not, but your Uncle Roger is a Vietnam Vet. Back then there was no hero’s welcome home. They came home to be spit on and cursed. There was PTSD, undiagnosed and untreated though it was.
Once years ago we went, as a family, to the Travelling Vietnam Wall when it was in Traverse City. The kids and I watched helplessly as another soldier walked him away from the wall as he sobbed helplessly. Had he seen a familiar name engraved there? He never talked about it. They’d never seen their Dad cry, much less in this context.
Roger has never slept soundly, if at all. He’s always had unexplained sudden whole body “shakes”. Around the time of his triple heart by-pass a few years ago he was having nightly terrors of entering a room, shooting, killing. He’d come out of it in tears, afraid to try to sleep. I believe it was something that had happened in Vietnam, but never knew details.
He was 17 when he enlisted in the Army in 1967. I don’t believe he ever really came home.
Thank you for your service Dax, and thank you for yours Jenn.

Dan Cortright - June 21, 2012 - 3:59 pm

Im sorry Debbie, I know how much it meant to me when Roger thanked ME for my service after Desert Storm. I can’t imagine what he went through or what you guys have survived since.

Debbie Doss - June 21, 2012 - 4:06 pm

Thank you Dan, that means a lot.
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