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Article: PTSD -- after war, the fight within
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- May 28, 2007
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In Vietnam, "Roy" killed too many people to remember a final
tally.
Some of the kills came during hand-to-hand combat, of which Roy,
63, has exceedingly vivid memories.
The horrors of combat were a long way from the pastoral life Roy
knew on a cattle ranch in Idaho as a child or the safety of college
classrooms as a young man.
The war would change him in ways he couldn't have imagined.
Roy, who requested that his real name not be used, was a Marine
corporal in Vietnam. He earned two Purple Heart awards after his
time on the front lines. He killed to live another day.
"I never felt guilty about what I did over there," Roy said
recently in an interview.
But by the time he received an honorable ...