Skip to content

The consumption of alcohol allowed me to disconnect.

Will Florez (US Coast Guard, 1988-2010) explains how alcohol allowed him to disconnect from painful memories — at least for a short time.

Transcript

I think that the consumption for me,

I could only speak

and I'll only speak for myself.

The consumption of alcohol allowed me

to disconnect

from what I just witnessed,

from what

I just had to do, from the unpleasantness

of putting someone alive,

a body into a body bag.

Substances

that I took,

which were all legal alcohol, gave me

a little bit of a disconnect.

It was brief

and it came with consequences.

Published At