Agreed. As I mentioned, I had some school buddies who’s older brothers were over there, and when they came back some of them were pretty messed up. I worked for one of them when I pumped gas a few months in high school, and this guy was a real hum dinger. He couldn’t handle stress at all. We weren’t allowed to have more than a certain amount of cash on us at any time, so if you collected a number of sales and were over the limit you were supposed to make a drop in the safe. During rush hour he would get so worked up about having to make drops after nearly every sale that he would end up going into the office and locking himself in there so he could calm down. We would be pumping gas and not able to make change in some instances because we would need to get change from him.
One of my best friends is a Vietnam vet. He was a photographer for the Army, and while he saw some action he wasn’t in the really nasty stuff according to him. Good guy, pretty stable from what I’ve seen over 20 some years, but he’s got some personality traits that I suspect are either a result of his service or that he’s a hard core New Yorker - tough to make the distinction. -D > On Dec 18, 2020, at 5:27 PM, Buggered Benzmail via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I watched it when it was on PBS, it was pretty good but made me angry and > frustrated. Such a waste. > > I worked summers after HS and in college at the airport at a FBO. We had one > pilot who flew charters, he was a few years older than me and had been there. > We would hang out in the evenings when things were slow. One night we were > talking and he had this flashback episode like he was back there and reliving > this incident. It was scary, he didn’t get violent or anything, but it was > incredibly emotional and very difficult for him. Bad sh*t happened there. I > felt really bad for him. Nobody had the term PTSD back then but that was > clearly what was going on for him. > > On another interesting note — Uncle Ho supposedly worked in a Chinese > restaurant in FWA for awhile before he went back and became a revolutionary. > Several people told me this. > > --FT > Sent from iPhone > >> On Dec 18, 2020, at 3:55 PM, Dan Penoff via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> wrote: >> >> As I was alive at the time and recall a lot of the evening news aspects, I >> was too young to fully grasp what was going on. I had friends in school >> who’s older brothers were over there and came back pretty messed up in the >> head. >> >> I’m interested mainly in the stuff leading up to the war and what was up >> with the French bailing out. The rest should be good, too, I was just >> wondering. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -D >> >>> On Dec 18, 2020, at 3:45 PM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes >>> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> It's very good. I "watched" most of the first part from the kitchen while >>> Mom had it on the TV, I don't have good memories from those days. >>> >>> Well worth the time, Burns is a good historian and very neutral. I felt a >>> great deal of stress relief after watching it, believe it or not. >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
