The Troubled Homecoming Of The Marlboro Marine

[Nick Arnett]

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Dave Land <dmland at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On this point, you and I are in complete agreement. To be
> honest, I don't even know that I can walk a mile in my own
> shoes from a different time in my life: I try to think about
> what it was to be a scrawny teenager in Pittsburgh, or a
> father of a dying child... I'm not even sure I can honestly
> get hold of what _those_ people, who were me, were feeling.


IIRC, it was hard at the time, too, at the times when I was around... which
is not unusual.  One of the annoying, but somewhat life-preserving, things
about trauma is that we don't really experience it all at once.  Gets us
through the moments, but as the head of our CISM team says, it is also sort
of timeless, always present from that time forward.

Nick

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