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When I was in middle school,
I started doing research of my own.
I had a English teacher that I was very close with,
and I shared some of my issues with her.
I told her, sometimes my father and I clashed,
and me and my new stepmother at the time --
because he remarried.
He wanted a mother for me and a wife for him.
And I talked to her about those things,
and she kind of steered me in the direction of PTSD.
It wasn't so much PTSD per se,
but she just let me know that when
people come, who are in the military, once they retire,
there are certain flashbacks that they have,
there are certain memories that just kind of replay
in their mind about the things that they saw over there.
At that time, I had no idea that you could be
that traumatized by seeing a dead body.
Even if you didn't witness the actual killing,
just seeing a dead body, I had no idea, you know,
the magnitude of how that could really affect someone.