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Survivors like myself have such serious guilt about making it through.

Craig Stu Shipley, US Marine Corps 1964 - 1968, talks about why he didn't ask for help with his PTSD right away.

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You don't have to lay it all out, so to speak

and I think that's what a lot of Vets have problems with.

They're afraid that they're going to be looked

at as some kind of freak or weak.

There's nothing weak about a man that has been in combat.

There's nothing weak about a person that has held his buddy

in his arms and watched him die at the age of 17.

There's nothing weak about that person.

He's an extremely honorable, brave human being, but survivors

like myself have such serious guilt about making it through.

It's extremely hard to reach the point where you can sit

down with someone and talk about this stuff.

I gave it all and made it home and carry the burden

of being a survivor, the guilt, and then got the old PTSD going

on and ruined my life for the last 40 years but there is hope

and you can find the peace.

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