Transcript
My family was definitely afraid of me.
My grandmother, being
elderly from South Carolina,
once again, nobody in my
family joining the army,
one day she thought that
I was asleep on the couch,
and she was whispering to my mom,
"Don't wake Junior up
because he's going to jump on all of us."
Because once...
If you see on TV, the war at the time,
and you see stories of
Veterans coming back
and killing their entire families
or beating up on their
girlfriends or their wives,
that's the only thing that you know.
And that's what my grandmother thought
I was going to do at her house.
So, there were times where
I could tell she was afraid
to be with me alone.
And I didn't know how to ease
her mind of those feelings,
because all she saw on TV were
these Veterans coming back,
and you heard more and more about PTSD,
Veterans murdering their families,
Veterans murdering other people,
and then committing suicide.
And she was afraid of that for me.