Compassionate Warrior, Yoga For Combat Veterans

12/13/2025

These and other similar stories that help understand what soldiers experienced in Vietnam, are way too late to help anyone of us. Way too late. They could have helped more of us reintegrate into civilian life if the adverse public would have known; if the short clips or reels would have been broadcasted before the six’o clock news on TV where the list of new daily casualties were presented.

12/06/2025

Five decades after coming home, presently there is more content shared about combat arms vietnam veterans in social media than ever before. Just as the majority of us is dying, many from cancer caused by Agent Orange.

12/06/2025

12/04/2025

People around me use the
acronym P.T.S.D. ubiquitously for any scare. anyas if it meant they had a BIG scare, without knowing what it is and understanding the specific symptom clusters and the dynamics of thei interaction.

Trauma is a real thing. Stress is another rea thing too. Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) is yet another psychiatric term, along the continuoum, that is serious enough to be treated.

If you are hoing to say it, at least understand the basic nomenclature. PTSD is an Anxiety-based psychiatric disorder with defined clusters of symptoms and graduated levels of severity. It can be debilitating and may contribute to fatality. 48 % of the people who comit su***de had PTSD backgrounds.

I have chronic PTSD and cringe at the banality of its usage as slang. The meme uses simple language to describe a complex dosorder.


12/02/2025

Many of my combat arms brothers are hurting to the point of su***de. That’s horrible pain. We need to bring them to a peaceful farm and have them tell their storries an cry, sob, releasing those untended emotions that have laid burried under so much social pressure, cleansing and recalibrating using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

12/01/2025

11/30/2025

I came back alive and in one piece, proud of my service as a Combat Medic with the 198th Light Infantry Brigade. I felt I had done something of value for my country and was shocked when I entered the Seattle Tacoma International Airport. My most poignant personal experiences came from the lousy treatment given to Vietnam Veterans.

I am grateful to my VA for treating my service-connected disabilities especially the employees that treated me with respect, love, and care.

11/29/2025

We were issued 3 collapsible plastic water bottles during long range patrols and other
Field operations. It was hot and humid. Each filled bottle added 8 -12 oz of watercweight of to our 65 lbs righsack. I, like most soldiers rationed my water. The firsd day was ok. The second day I had to shsre my water with an inmature rifleman who had drank all of his and was having heat exhaustion. The third day i ran out of water rations. After 6 hrs. I felt as if my throat passage was closing and I vould not swallow. We tried sucking pebbles. Later that daty we discovered a shady river and an a tunnel hospital. We were desperate for water and drank from the river. The enemy had poisoned the water with corpses about 800 yards above us. My entire company got infected with amebic disentery. We had to go in to the Battalion Aid Station for treatment. Those are my memries of water.

11/28/2025

11/28/2025