I'm with you. The only real relevant part of that whole statement was the last paragraph. Maybe I saw too much death and destruction....both in SE Asia and here. Working in the fire dept we pulled up on the scene of way too many life threatening situations. Seen too many body parts. No we didn't have any psychiatric help or whatever..except for one time it was offered to us. We mostly dealt with it on a personal basis...and in a group situation too at times. We must have sounded like a bunch of sick people at times. Hell one of the hardest nosed people we had was one of our female medics...at least on the scene. Later she kinda opened up to me a little...mainly cause I was an oldtimer and had been a medic too as well as her supervisor. When I went to work in the field I realized what some of it was gonna be like.. Determined right from the start how I had to look at senseless death. I only very occassionally have any dreams of some of the sights we had to deal with. That one dream did involve a shooting though. 4 to be exact..2 of which I witnessed. Would I have chosen another line of life's work. Not for a million dollars. Do I regret seeing what I have seen?? No..It was just a part of life...including the end of it in many cases. I just don't have to read about things such as this from someone who really makes no sense in what he says ,,,,,,, in my opinion that is.
