The Troubled Homecoming Of The Marlboro Marine

[Dave Land]

On Mar 30, 2008, at 7:04 PM, Nick Arnett wrote:

> 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.

I don't suppose it helps that, like Blake Miller, I was self-medicating
through some parts of it...

Dave