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The Vietnam War really was, is in a stage back then
where there were advisors there and people doing reconnaissance
like me and it was not what you'd call a regular war.
It was guerrilla warfare type stuff
and it was very, very brutal.
I had really bad nightmares, really, really bad nightmares
and I didn't get much sleep.
Many years later when I had a heart attack, I'm a policeman,
the doctors told me out in Boston Hospital
that I hadn't slept for years.
Looking back, I've done a lot of that since, it's true.
I hadn't. I just didn't sleep
because it was a place I had no control over.
I'd fall out of bed or I'd be screaming in bed.
During the day, I thought I had control over PTSD or I tried
to have control over it, but at night it was
like everything happened.
So if I was to wake up in the middle of the night,
I just wouldn't go back to bed then day after day after day,
I was exhausted all the time.