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Originally Posted by fw102807
My father in law was a purple heart veteran and he never spoke about it to anyone, even his wife and sons even though he lived into his eighties. I don't know how he dealt with it but he somehow did.
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True true. My husband got a bronze star in Vietnam. Absolutely will not discuss Vietnam except on an extremely superficial level, and is the kindest, best father and husband. Some can handle it better than others. We will never know what he went through, and we respect his wish to not discuss.
The only thing he ever said... when he got back from Vietnam and returned to his parents' home, his mother used to rattle the screen door handle vigorously to call the cat in at night. It would make him sit stark upright in bed, thinking it was gunfire. She quit doing that.