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Thread #18001 Message #177117
Posted By: bbelle
12-Feb-00 - 09:55 AM
Thread Name: Your Woodstock Memories?
Subject: RE: Your Woodstock Memories?
In 30 years, I've never spoken or written of the above. "Saying" it aloud is strangely cathartic and extremely unsettling. So many of the G.I.'s returned stateside in the same state as my fiance. So many of the G.I.'s suffered/continue to suffer from PTSD ... buy nothing has ever been said about the girlfriends, fiance's, wives, families who suffer it as well. I've never married, not because I haven't had ample opportunity, but because I've never had closure with my relationship with Sam. I still think of him and what might have been. There are those who say "That's ridiculous, you have to move on." I harbor such resentment towards the powers that be that put us there. I've never said much outwardly because I come from a military family ... father is retired from the Navy and sister is retired from the Air Force ... and I have close friends who are also retired from military service ... and out of respect for them, I keep it inside. Lately, I don't feel safe speaking my mind on the mudcat form, however, in this particular thread I do. This thread was started asking for Woodstock memories ... well these are my Woodstock memories and they aren't full of being at a great party and smoking pot and everybody loving everybody else. "Whoa, moonchild, get a grip!" ... moonchild