Do you think the Vietnam War is over?

God bless you, brother! I'm back to back with ya! Stand tall and we'll all get through this someday!

That’s how I feel I was able to come home start a family buy a house the bladder cancer the prostate cancer the months of Chemo and months of Radiation and seemed like a lifetime getting the help and admitting it from Vietnam the good thing and strange was I made it home knowing today if quitting school joining the Army for Vietnam would result in the Cancer and it damn near crippling me HELL YES I’D DO AGAIN

Sharon Danitschek - That's because we are only two to three generations away from the war itself (1959-1975 means there are overlaps for generations). It is not known what impacts may come beyond five generations as various DNA gene mutations are passed down. The question is whether the DNA gene mutations will eventually become so recessive that they are considered rare.

Look up Canadian Cancer Nurse, Rene Caisse. Cancer was cured back in the eighteen hundreds. She found a tea that can clean your body of Cancer, but it has one side effect, it cures diabetes first.

SGT Randall Smith - Hang in there bro! I'm not sure if there is, or has ever been a 'cure'. We just find ways to deal with it that don't harm others, or ourself! I found that if one of these pops up on me during the night, instead of trying to get back to sleep, I'll get up and do some work on a hobby, read something (nothing 'bout Nam/nothing to do w/military), watch t.v. (again no O. North 'war stories'); or anything else (that's legal!), that I know brings me some peace. I'm usually able to get back to sleep before first light. I'm also a spiritual man and turning there bro is no sign of weakness. Prayer does work!

Now I'm no shrink, so I'm just sharing with you the things that help me, in the hope that they might help you as well! We may be separated by different wars, times, and places, but it doesn't matter; we're all affected in some way. If anyone tells you they've been there in the mud and blood, or near enough to it to get some of it on them, but they were never affected in a negative way by it, they're lying to you, but more importantly, they're lying to themselves and I don't want to be around when that charge goes off!

Just remember that you're not alone out there. and we're going to beat it just like we've done before; as a team. So back to back bro! Always!

You have stated it all, quite succinctly at that. Welcome Home Brother. There are many of us sleeping the same bed.

SGT Randall Smith - This is an excellent film that was done by a Nam vet's daughter. The website will take you to the film itself.
http://www.iwillgobacktonight.com/

Napoleon stated many years ago concerning combat warriors: "The Mental to the Physical is the same as Four is to One". The wounds of war are a great part of me today, but I have fought and overcome many of the past predictions of their outcome, Having to face that day many years ago (42) that I was in deep dodo wanting to do anything to find peace. All the constant Drs., pills, therapy are nothing but band aids on a cancer. For 36 years and 38 different "Professionals" I have gained only the tools to manage symptoms. Faces, smells, sounds, even feeling material things that were once part of me, still come around. Learning how to reason or disassociate they away for a while is the best we can hope for.

Malaria is some bad stuff. It lies dormant and resurfaces at will. We took all the gamma globulin shots as well as all the pills before going ashore in Somalia. It was prevalent in PI also. In Korea the concern was hemorrhagic fever caused by mice turds. There was a standing order against billeting on the deck without cots. One Army Ranger Platoon Commander ignored the directive and around 20 members of his platoon contracted malaria, which is for life. They referred to it in briefings as what not to do. He said his men were hard and didn't need cots. Not a smart move.

CPT Jack: I get the occasional bout. They tell me it will never go away. But you seem to have it worse than I have seen. Different strain?

I met a Vietnam War protester and her draft dodger husband in New Zealand a few years ago. She was still protesting the war. I told her I was a Vietnam vet and she was one of the most hateful person I have ever met then I walked away. I just didn't want to fight the Vietnam War while I was on vacation in a foreign country.

Amen Sir! I still bump into those idiots myself!