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I had a lot of talk with a psychiatrist, the psychiatrist
that I really liked, and we talked a lot.
He said, "A lot of guys come back from Vietnam,
World War Two, they became policemen
because you could carry a gun and you could be hypervigilant.
You could do all these things that PTSD manifests itself in
and it was like normal."
But it really wasn't because it ate you from the inside out.
Michael, God bless his soul, he kept having sections
of his stomach taken out.
He was one of my subordinates.
I was a Sergeant, a Patrol Supervisor.
I was having the same problems he was.
We'd go out on his boat and we'd talk about it.
We both know we had problems,
you just couldn't put a finger on what it was.
I don't think, I mean years ago they used
to call it combat fatigue or battle fatigue
or shell shock or whatever it was.
Michael, he took his own life.
Michael and I were really close friends and his family asked me
to be a pallbearer at his funeral.
He was a policeman and I was only the uniformed policeman
as pallbearer.
I know it was PTSD, but there were no such thing back then.