The Troubled Homecoming Of The Marlboro Marine

[Nick Arnett]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Dave Land <dmland at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> > The comments along the lines of "What did he think he was signing
> > up for?"
> > and "Others aren't using the war as an excuse" really get under my
> > skin.
> > Walk a mile in his shoes, people.
>
> What do you mean for us to do with that challenge, exactly?


Nothing.  Nobody here said anything like that.  I was talking about comments
to the article, on the Rolling Stone web site.

I'm guessing you thought I was talking about the article?  I wasn't.  I was
talking about people who refuse to take PTSD seriously, as if it were merely
a matter of sucking it up or whatever.  Look at the comments by
"RealAmerican" on the R.S. site.

You repeated my point a different way when you wrote that you don't know
what it was like to be Kurt or Wes.  Exactly my point.  Isn't that what
"walk a mile in his shoes" means?  Before passing judgment, realize that you
don't know what another person has been through?

I'm a little surprised at your response, given how much you know about my
own dealings with PTSD and what I do to help others.  But a lot of it is
beyond words, almost by definition.

Nick

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