DAILY I CAN NOT FORGET THE 22 MOSTLY YOUNG VETERANS WHO WILL KILL THEMSELVES TODAY, TOMMOROW AND IN THE DAYS AHEAD.
the caps were unintentional but I prefer to go ahead rather than erase the mistake and redo the typing. Its the same with life, you really can't erase anything since it always will have happened.

All the conflicts lies, betrayal and horror endemic to war can not be forgotten but they can be processed in an ongoing way that will not call upon suicide as an answer. This is what a well conceived individual therapy of hypnosis can provide.

I haven't lost one yet. They can only be referred by a fellow veteran and no price is put on their lives in the form of a fee or donation.

Discussions with neurologists at NIH were fruitful but then again they have not spent many years as a hypnotist. The military does see the benefits of hypnosis going back to WW 1 but call it guided imagery and are half hearted and uncommitted to the returning veterans preferring to give drugs in a scatter shot modality.

What all veterans have in common is a look that haunts them with a helplessness they can not stand in themselves. It is not always the dying look of a buddy. These veterans have hundreds of looks that will last a lifetime. I try to do something good with these long lasting looks and remembrance.

I have an ashamed look of a lifetime that I too try and do something positive. Demonstrating against the Viet Nam war from campus to Washington was my commitment as a brash college student. When one haunted veteran returned to school to begin his freshman year after serving in Viet Nam in ways I will never know it was all too easy to call him a baby killer to his face. The look on his face told of the horror and complexity of all the conflicts of senseless death.

I remember his look and use it for redemption, for the innocent, the guilty and the sane who need not kill themselves today.