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I started yelling when we went underneath an overpass.

Reedy Hopkins, US Air Force 1983 - 2011, talks about how he knew he had PTSD.

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With my son and daughters in the car

and my wife driving because I didn't want to drive,

one of our evasive techniques in Iraq was

if you ever went underneath an overpass,

you would do a swerve, swerve back and forth.

And I started yelling as we went underneath an overpass,

"Why aren't you swerving?! Why aren't you swerving?!"

And that kind of freaks your children and your spouse out

and everybody else in the car, so.

That's probably something that some folks

who've been out on convoys and had to worry about --

especially if they were in the turret of a Humvee --

people dropping grenades off of overpasses into the Humvee,

so they probably can relate to that.

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