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As the older sibling, I was always worried about my brother.
By the time I was 21, I started dealing with some issues
on my own, PTSD-related, and I think I started
to understand a little bit what was going on,
but I always knew my brother was there,
and he was really the biggest victim.
You know, my mother's capacity to deal with it,
she was overloaded.
I mean, God bless her, she tried her best,
but you know, she grew up with my father.
They had two kids together, they lost a child together,
they were married when he went to Vietnam,
and her parents were dead before I was born, so her world
was turned upside down, which meant my brother's was.
And I was always concerned about him,
but there was nothing I could do.
I'm in school, and by the time I turned 21,
my head wasn't in it either.
And there are things, today, I see in my brother
that I think might be different had this not occurred.