Prisoner Of War

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So our POW count during these wars was low on that front but the sad thing that we do have is that we have POW’s of another type. We have military Heroes that have returned home and have no real way to release the horror stories and feelings that keep them locked up inside. This not only makes them a POW but their family, friends and loved ones. Who all too often suffer as a result from POW syndrome today.
This is where the Modern Day POW comes from, as referred in the title of this chapter, free on the outside as they live life day to day while they are locked up on the inside. California, Oregon, Oklahoma Texas, Kentucky, Delaware, and other states in America have become POW Encampments as our military hero’s comeback and return to their
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These are the heroes htta have bene discharged for the tours and home with their familes, friends whoa r estill fighting the war in their minds a shtyetry to live life as tye once did. These survivors have trouble with the reality and horrors that did exist in war they lived in. The wars they fought in Iran, Iraq, Kuwaiti and other country in the last few years have left everybody battle scarred. Then site and horrifc things these warrior have seen are just that as they images of death injured pole are forever fixed in their minds. I have know a few guys who would tell me help me get the blood off and go into a fit of rage trying to wash their hands as I looked at them trying to wash their hands , only to see they had no blood on …show more content…
This scene was as real as it could be for him and once he came back to reality he was ashamed as we talked about it. He said what he did there haunted him daily and he could just get some peace and forgiveness he would be ok. Sad as it was the only peace he got was when he finally commit-ted suicide.
He was a MODEREN DAY PRISONER OF WAR and was 6 years out of the Mid-dle East. He too took meds that I believe did nothelp and only pushed him down a road to death. Medication may have their place in this world ut I have yet to see them in the field of mental health. I know that when a person has been committee to a life sentence in California Corrections Department. The first five years I am told them give this person psychic meds to tone them down mentally and keep them manageable for the time until they adjust to the fact of what is going

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