{"id":5488,"date":"2023-11-27T14:23:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T14:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.giftfromwithin.org\/?page_id=5488"},"modified":"2023-11-27T14:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T14:23:28","slug":"police-returning-from-war","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.giftfromwithin.org\/ptsd\/police-returning-from-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Reintegration & Readjustment Program For Iraqi Veterans: for officers returning from the war in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things that men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil….You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Things They Carried<\/em><\/a>
Tim O’Brien (Author and Vietnam Combat Veteran)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a condition I first experienced after serving as a marine in Vietnam. I was never the same person after placing the first body in a body bag in Nam. And every day after that, there was just more death and destruction. I was changed; I was different from the man I used to be and there was nobody I could tell. I was afraid to talk because I was afraid to cry. If I started to cry, I might never stop.<\/em> February, 1987<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officer Melvin Mason (Retired)
Metropolitan Police Department
Washington, DC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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