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On Apr 18, 1:57 am, Raymond <Bluerhy...@aol.com> wrote:
> On Apr 17, 10:34�pm, Otis Willie PIO The American War Library
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> <themilitaryto...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > Vietnam Veterans of America sponsoring seminar on PTSD Mondayhttp://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080417/BREAKI...
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> > {EXCERPT} News-Leader.com, MO Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 952 in
> > Springfield will hold a seminar on post traumatic stress disorder on Monday at
> > Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 963,...
>
> >http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080417/BREAKI....
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> > PTSD Discussion/News/Info Exchange Forumhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/war-caused-ptsd
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> > Vietnam Vets of Ameria News/Discussion/Info Exchange Forumhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/vietvets-or-america
> > Vietnam Cross of Gallantryhttp://www.amervets.com/replacement/vcog.htm#isr
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> > � � � � U.S. and friendly nation laws prohibit fully
> > � � � � reproducing copyrighted material.. In abidance
> > � � � � with our laws this report cannot be provided in
> > � � � � its entirety. However, you can read it in full
> > � � � � today at the supplied URL. The subject/content of
> > � � � � this report is not necessarily the viewpoint of
> > � � � � the distributing Library. This report is provided
> > � � � � for your information and discussion.
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> > -- Otis Willie (Ret.)
> > � �Military News and Information Editor (http://www.13105320634.com)
> > � �The American War Library, Est. 1988 (http://www.amervets.com)
> > � �16907 Brighton Avenue
> > � �Gardena CA 90247
> > � �1-310-532-0634
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> > � �Military Webmaster Site Link Request Form:
> > � �http://www.amervets.com/linkreq.htm
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> > � �Military and Vet Info-Exchange/Discussion Groups
> > � �http://members.aol.com/amerwar/share.htm
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> THE U.S. INVASION OF VIETNAM
> Herbert Hoover, later to become President of the United States did a
> study that showed that one of the world's largest oil fields ran along
> the coast of the South China Sea right off French Indo-China, now
> known as Vietnam.
> - Denny, Ludwell, We Fight of Oil, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1928.
>
> Defend The Flag
> by Raymond
>
> The wall is full with names of sons
> That lost their lives to foreign guns.
> Who's to blame? "We're not the ones."
> And with these words each leader runs.
>
> Who are these men we pick to lead
> That waste our youth and make them bleed?
> These must be men of awful need
> That can commit this dreadful deed.
>
> These wretched men who live to lie
> Are not the ones that fight and die.
> They cause this woe and merely sigh
> While mother's hearts are made to cry.
>
> "Defend the flag. This is the way."
> We never question what they say.
> But pain and death will end the day
> And in the earth our children lay.
>
> We ask our youth their lives to lend
> While our leaders strut and spend.
> It's off to Hell these leaders send
> Then this madness just might end.
>
> Take the tour with music:http://pzzzz.tripod.com/nampictour.html
>
> The men of B Company were in a dangerous state of mind. They had lost
> five men in a firefight the day before. The morning of Feb. 8, 1968,
> brought unwelcome orders to resume their sweep of the countryside, a
> green patchwork of rice paddies along Vietnam's central coast.
>
> They met no resistance as they entered a nondescript settlement in
> Quang Nam province. So Jamie Henry, a 20-year-old medic, set his rifle
> down in a hut, unfastened his bandoliers and lighted a cigarette.
>
> Just then, the voice of a lieutenant crackled across the radio. He
> reported that he had rounded up 19 civilians, and wanted to know what
> to do with them. Henry later recalled the company commander's
> response:
>
> Kill anything that moves.
>
> Henry stepped outside the hut and saw a small crowd of women and
> children. Then the shooting began.
>
> Moments later, the 19 villagers lay dead or dying.
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/co/COMMONSENSE/vietnam.html
>
> Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities,
> War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes
> forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the
> only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to
> slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and
> with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns
> he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal
> brotherhood of man" - with his mouth.
> ~Mark Twain
>
> Americans love war.
> War is the health of the state
>
> " With the shock of war the State comes into its own again".
> --- Randolph Bournehttp://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/warhealthstate1918.htm
>
> Onward Christian soldiers marching off to war.....- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
The Vietnam Vet also suffers from PTSD, but most did not report
anything
was wrong; mental disorder was looked down upon then and now. Persons
in uniform were spat on by many Americans, this also kept them from
saying
what was wrong with them.
> On Apr 17, 10:34�pm, Otis Willie PIO The American War Library
>
>
>
>
>
> <themilitaryto...@pacbell.net> wrote:
> > Vietnam Veterans of America sponsoring seminar on PTSD Mondayhttp://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080417/BREAKI...
>
> > {EXCERPT} News-Leader.com, MO Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 952 in
> > Springfield will hold a seminar on post traumatic stress disorder on Monday at
> > Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 963,...
>
> >http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080417/BREAKI....
>
> > PTSD Discussion/News/Info Exchange Forumhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/war-caused-ptsd
>
> > Vietnam Vets of Ameria News/Discussion/Info Exchange Forumhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/vietvets-or-america
> > Vietnam Cross of Gallantryhttp://www.amervets.com/replacement/vcog.htm#isr
>
> > � � � � U.S. and friendly nation laws prohibit fully
> > � � � � reproducing copyrighted material.. In abidance
> > � � � � with our laws this report cannot be provided in
> > � � � � its entirety. However, you can read it in full
> > � � � � today at the supplied URL. The subject/content of
> > � � � � this report is not necessarily the viewpoint of
> > � � � � the distributing Library. This report is provided
> > � � � � for your information and discussion.
>
> > -- Otis Willie (Ret.)
> > � �Military News and Information Editor (http://www.13105320634.com)
> > � �The American War Library, Est. 1988 (http://www.amervets.com)
> > � �16907 Brighton Avenue
> > � �Gardena CA 90247
> > � �1-310-532-0634
>
> > � �Military Webmaster Site Link Request Form:
> > � �http://www.amervets.com/linkreq.htm
>
> > � �Military and Vet Info-Exchange/Discussion Groups
> > � �http://members.aol.com/amerwar/share.htm
>
> THE U.S. INVASION OF VIETNAM
> Herbert Hoover, later to become President of the United States did a
> study that showed that one of the world's largest oil fields ran along
> the coast of the South China Sea right off French Indo-China, now
> known as Vietnam.
> - Denny, Ludwell, We Fight of Oil, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1928.
>
> Defend The Flag
> by Raymond
>
> The wall is full with names of sons
> That lost their lives to foreign guns.
> Who's to blame? "We're not the ones."
> And with these words each leader runs.
>
> Who are these men we pick to lead
> That waste our youth and make them bleed?
> These must be men of awful need
> That can commit this dreadful deed.
>
> These wretched men who live to lie
> Are not the ones that fight and die.
> They cause this woe and merely sigh
> While mother's hearts are made to cry.
>
> "Defend the flag. This is the way."
> We never question what they say.
> But pain and death will end the day
> And in the earth our children lay.
>
> We ask our youth their lives to lend
> While our leaders strut and spend.
> It's off to Hell these leaders send
> Then this madness just might end.
>
> Take the tour with music:http://pzzzz.tripod.com/nampictour.html
>
> The men of B Company were in a dangerous state of mind. They had lost
> five men in a firefight the day before. The morning of Feb. 8, 1968,
> brought unwelcome orders to resume their sweep of the countryside, a
> green patchwork of rice paddies along Vietnam's central coast.
>
> They met no resistance as they entered a nondescript settlement in
> Quang Nam province. So Jamie Henry, a 20-year-old medic, set his rifle
> down in a hut, unfastened his bandoliers and lighted a cigarette.
>
> Just then, the voice of a lieutenant crackled across the radio. He
> reported that he had rounded up 19 civilians, and wanted to know what
> to do with them. Henry later recalled the company commander's
> response:
>
> Kill anything that moves.
>
> Henry stepped outside the hut and saw a small crowd of women and
> children. Then the shooting began.
>
> Moments later, the 19 villagers lay dead or dying.
>
> http://www.angelfire.com/co/COMMONSENSE/vietnam.html
>
> Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities,
> War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes
> forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the
> only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to
> slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and
> with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns
> he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal
> brotherhood of man" - with his mouth.
> ~Mark Twain
>
> Americans love war.
> War is the health of the state
>
> " With the shock of war the State comes into its own again".
> --- Randolph Bournehttp://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/warhealthstate1918.htm
>
> Onward Christian soldiers marching off to war.....- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
The Vietnam Vet also suffers from PTSD, but most did not report
anything
was wrong; mental disorder was looked down upon then and now. Persons
in uniform were spat on by many Americans, this also kept them from
saying
what was wrong with them.
