What a story!, i think that no matter what happens to a service man in
combat conditions he MUST be commended for his bravery, even if captured and
tortured, and especially if imprisoned for a length of time such as the man
we read about here.
Unfortunately the U.S. Government didnt have the knowledge of post traumatic
stress disorder until much later.
Unless anyone has been in these conditions or experienced any thing like
this man; none of us will ever know of what goes on in a mans mind in combat
conditions, the fear, the anxiety, the sheer terror... We can only imagine
and empathise!
I take my hat off and salute the true veterans of these wars!!
Many
"Otis Willie" wrote in message
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Room For One More Veteran?

(EXCERPT) WASHINGTON, March 16, 2004

(CBS) It is February 1973. The first of the Vietnam POWs are returning
home. Most would salute and carry on. Air Force Captain Al Brudno
saluted too, but four months later took his own life: the first of the
prisoners to die.

"It was as if he was bleeding internally, in the heart and in the
mind, and nobody saw it," says his younger brother Bob Brudno.

And as CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart reports, Bob Brudno will
never, ever forget.

"I don't think he was capable of surviving, By himself," he says of
his older borther. "Somebody...

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