Destroying Our Past

[Anglesachse]

Hi Ernie, hope you get on here well.

 

[Sarg]

Welcome, Ernie! Grab a chair, smoke em' if ya got em', and join in.

Sarg

 

[Jimmy1]

Welcome again Ernie. Its time to undo the chains and deal with those demons that have been f*cking with ya.

 

[BV101]

Hello Ernie, welcome on board.

I have everything what I had issued. cammo trousers. green shirt, non matching cammo jacket. 1 paper ID card. 1 helmet (former east german). Thats it. The sum total of uniform. No medals of course. We didn't have time for them.

 

[daniel]

You can get rid of it all but you will never get rid of the memory.

 

[fallenangel1]

I still have my dress blues, most of everything else is gone. I cant find my ribbons and i only have 1 medal left..nothing else exist from my past...its shameful on my part..

 

[Jimmy1]

It took me 5 years to go to ANZAC day, and that was only because Margaret took me.

In Australia, you can get replicas of all medals don't know about overthere

 

[Jimmy1]

Daniel, of course you can't mate. But you can reduce the emotions attached to those traumas.
The only real cure is Alzheimer's, my dad died with that. His torment was gone

 

[Sabre]

I have not done any Anzac days.
I cannot bring myself to go.
My kids are proud my wife is proud but I cannot be proud as I feel I don't qualify for the days events

Sure I have the AASM with ICAT but with what happened to me I just feel I am not worthy to go.

 

[Jimmy1]

Mate, I only did the dawn service and didn't do it for myself. I did it for my grandfathers who served, my father, and all my mates both Aussie and coalition.

 

[daniel]

jimmy do you mean reduce the emotions attached to the objects?

 

[daniel]

I still have my dress blues, most of everything else is gone. I cant find my ribbons and i only have 1 medal left..nothing else exist from my past...its shameful on my part..

i burned all my shit when i got back to the world. only thing i kept was a bayonet and that got confiscated when a whole shitload of them laws swooped down on me and my crime partner (another Marine and nam vet) back in the 70s. I have a combat action ribbon, my bootcamp photo and dd214. Oh yeah and a whole 'nuther lifetime of memories. Only thing I really cant get rid of is the fact I am (for good or bad) a Marine for life . . .