A Sense of Home!
Heroes Remember
A Sense of Home!
Christmas was fantastic too, seeing Santa
driving a vehicle with a gun was interesting.
But you celebrate in your own ways.
Halloween when nobody else celebrates
Halloween on the other side of the world
seeing us walk around with witches hats on
was very unusual for them but it gave us
that sense of home, that sense of, you know,
not everything is different because at that
time was when you got a fifteen minute
phone call once a week that you had
to sign up for and wait in line for.
We didn’t have the internet,
we didn’t have cell phones,
like this stuff just didn’t exist.
We were still writing letters back and
forth at that time. You were so
secluded from your family. And I was
lucky enough that, road to mental
readiness is a big thing we talk about
now in the military and just mental health in
general. Back then most of the time the
people that gave us the briefings on mental
health were never there so what we did
once we got in theatre I gave a briefing
to the guys and there were like, you know
what whether you are right or you are wrong,
we’re just so happy you are here with
us and you know what we are talking about.
And then I would help the guys, sometimes
they would come up to me and they
would be like, you know, I was talking to my
wife and I told her I went to the mess for
a beer after work and she got mad at me
and I don’t understand why. And I’m like,
“Do you have kids?” “Yah!” So she’s at
home with like your three children trying
to tough it out and do everything and
you’re telling her you went to work
and had a beer.” And he goes,
“Well yah I can’t tell her what I am really
doing because it is awful and it will scare her,”
and I’m like, “Scare her a little just enough
so that she knows you are not just sitting
here having a party right?”
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