How Goes the Battle?

The Vietnam War through the Eyes of a GI

Night shift

16 June 2011

I remember the VA nurses, usually kind and sincere unlike the doctors who blew through the room and seemed to scoff at questions. Who would have the audacity to speak in the presence of the almighty doctor? In 2006, when my dad spent a length of time at the VA hospital, the night staff would … More Night shift

Still fighting the Vietnam War

28 February 2011

For whatever reason my dad had the VA write a standard letter that read: “The official records of the Department of Veterans Affairs show that [my dad] is permanently and totally disabled for purposes of the VA.” He was officially diagnosed 100% permanently disabled with PTSD in the early nineties. (I have the official paperwork … More Still fighting the Vietnam War