Transcript
I had been put on probation at a job for popping on a UA
and for coming to work drunk.
[laughs] All issues.
And so I had a mandatory AA meeting that I had to go to
and it was at one of these AA meetings that,
it was a Vietnam Vet that, it was after the meeting was over
and I had actually shared and he came up to me and talked to me.
He basically was like, "I heard some of the things that you said
in there and you know, I can relate.
I'm a Vietnam Veteran and I had lots of issues coming back
and one of those was alcoholism and that's a part
and parcel to the PTSD."
And he was like, you know, "Maybe this is a symptom
of maybe something bigger.
Maybe still look at the alcoholism piece,
but there's a second piece to this and there's help."
He had himself gone through the whole claim process
and was being seen at the VA and all that kind of stuff
and had a rough time himself but had gotten there and had said
that you know, it can be a rough process but that there's people
that know the way through it and that you can find your way
through it and ends up being better, for the better.