Toward as much as they could rer as what happened before that moment or the accumulation of these moments. You know, go back to the beginning. Go back to your childhood. Not as a trite way to excuse what you might have done, not to say that everything depends on the patterns of your life, but his thinking seemed to be if you can understand by learning about yourself enough to know who you were in the moment before the traumatic event, then youll have an easier time understanding how you behaved in the first controlled moment you might be more maybe not forgiveness, but at least theres some understanding built in. So that seemed, you know, is that perfect . No. But for whats available out there, seemed like a pretty good shot. Yeah. I just wanted to make one quick note. Ivem interviewed a couple dozn ptsd survivors, male, female, war veterans, rape survivors. One of the most powerful therapy is the yoga as an alternative therapy because it helps change, the hypervigilance thats associat
Department basically predicted it would not happen as general shinseki had a more robust presence and pushed aside aggressively and the consequences of that with the early policy decisions played out over the years. So certainly there is details with that at the policy level we want people to think about what it meant to be one of those marines or Us State Department guy to build the society up and what that was like and how that was affected by the past but on a daytoday basis. For use thinking of trading when you were deployed or were you taking notes when you were deployed . I took a lot of notes a was right thing but not about war mostly very, very bad short stories and ive learned Anthony Powell had quit writing during world war ii i felt like that excuse me for all the things i had written them were awful. But i did come back with notes and a lot of memories but the source material that i had with the nature of my job by which travel lot and its been time with units so that certa
Lyceum on a checkpoint. A group of insurgents and then went to the child of a launch. I got fish and lima beans. I try to a healthy. All nine of us are smiling and laughing. Still jittery. A big plate of ravioli and pop types. Before digging in, the persian gulf, the they have pumped cuts everywhere . Another better, too. Weird. He looks up and down the table. I cannot believe we finally had a mission. Its about time we kill someone. Even i chuckle little. We had been in iraq two months when the artillery units actually doing artillery, except so far we have only shot elimination missions. They usually dont want to risk collateral damage. Not us, not until today. Today the old and battery fires and we know we hit our target. Religion until the so. Pretty quiet. How many insurgents to you think we killed . Platoon size elements. What . Platoon size . Hq i dont have platoons. Why do you think we need the old and battery. We didnt . Each gun only fired two rounds. They just wanted us all
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Shining star braving the elements of earth, wind and fire. Those stories coming up right now. The california endowment, help happens in neighborhoods. Learn more. And by contributions to your pbs station, from viewers like you. Thank you. The overwhelming majority of physical and emotional cost of war is the subject of ron capps new memoir seriously not all right five wars in ten years. Takes into the reality of the war crimes and the atrocity. Aer is military Intelligence Officer and a Foreign Service officer for the u. S. Department of state and the combat veteran of afghanistan. Served for 25 years. Now the found ore it have veteran riding project. My please to have you on the program. Thank you. I want to start reading something you write in the text. Because i think it will conte contextualize our conversation. As the glove protected a hot hand, riding along allows me to hold onto the memory just enough to shape it. Allows me to distance myself from it. To write my out of it, to w