Call Your Parents

Combat Vet Vision

We get back from combat we try to figure things out, we just measured all things in our lives that matter, we wrote a letter home.
We put it in our pocket, and it said our last words, we were asked to do this, who do we give this letter to who? Does this letter go to our parents, brother/sister, wife or kids?
We were asked to write this letter in 2003 when we went to Iraq. I could not do it.
We're back, we're trying to figure it out, it’s time to make some calls, it's time to call brothers and sisters friends most of all our parents, call your parents or call that “person that matters”, cause not all have good parents that ultimately care, some parents that were there, but weren't there. For that person in your life, that kind of helped manage you through your younger years or was side by side with you, that friend, that family member, that aunt /uncle, grandparent.
Somebody helped carry you to the forefront of where you are today. We may feel we stand alone in our mind and think that that understanding, or that this little piece, or that our life at this time or anytime can no longer be understood. We ourselves may not understand it.
In my experience, small elements of our lives will forever be a mystery. It is important to start the talk, the processing of what we have gone through.
Whether living at home or Combat, it’s a start to call that Parent person. I have spoken with my mom, talked to my stepdad, I've talked to my real dad. I hadn't talked to him in 22 years. I spent some time trying to talk to him and you know ultimately he was proud, and although he couldn't fully understand, he just gave me that look, that thought, it kind of just said it's OK to not be OK, or it's OK to be OK, it's OK to deal with things.
“I’m Faded, I’m Lost” great Lyric by Allen Walker…. How do we talk with our Parents...? I believe for me it started with my fellow Battle buddy.
I found it very important to begin to open up in this trusted circle. We all have to start somewhere. take your time but be involved in yourself, It gets easier over time.
I’ve said before, "to talk in a group or with a battle buddy, small puzzle pieces come together," to put words to those complicated thoughts, even than the words don’t always come out correctly and sometimes create problems in the emotions of loved ones that surround us.
It's important in small doses to share and work on ourselves until our story and we ourselves, fit back in Society, with our friends, and our families.
It is important to move forward in a positive direction.
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