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Fireworks that come out of tubes...they'll send me back to 2003.

Rebecca Miller, US Army, 2001 – 2005, talks about how she knew she had PTSD.

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- When I see trash on
the side of the road,

I'll do everything in
my power to avoid it.

And that stems from all the
IEDs that were in the road

when I was
deployed to Iraq.

Whenever I see trash on
the side of the road,

it reminds me of that time,

or if I smell
trash burning,

a lot of smells will take
me back to Iraq.

Noises,

Fourth of July, especially.

Not normal fireworks, not
like the small Black Cats

or anything, but

any of the mortar
type fireworks

that come out of tubes.

They're, they'll send
me back to 2003.

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