[ music ] Untold Stories saluting our Vietnam Veterans, continues now. Christmas in a hospital. How strange it seemed to be. Its not a physical ailment, but an ailment thats called ptsd. 46 years later, Doug Alexander still carries the burden of war. Alexander is a vietnam veteran who wrote this poem by receiving treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. He is also my uncle. I know. Those people died. Over there. Fighting a war that. Really none of us. Understood why we were there. But we were sent there to do a job, and we were trying to do it. And i know that those people tried just as hard as the next guy. But they didnt make it. And that bothers me. The year was 1969, and the country had already invested 15 years into vietnam. My uncle was 19 and more than a year into his army enlistment, when he was given orders to head to vietnam. He would soon be on the ground in tein minh. And i asked them, why do they call it rocket city . He said, cause they get rocketed three times a day