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What I thought was a perfect family was destroyed.

Donald Sullivan Jr., Son of a Veteran with PTSD, talks about what was hardest for him.

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I was mad that

what I thought was a perfect family was destroyed.

You think it's never going to happen to you.

Divorce happens to somebody else,

family problems happen to somebody else.

It's not the case.

It's not the case at all, and it took some time,

it took time to realize that it's OK that that happened,

that relationships fail, that things happen.

And I was angry with my father about what happened

in my family, but I never stopped loving him,

and I never stopped respecting him.

In some ways, it's going to make me tear up,

he never stopped being my hero

because, although he got knocked down and although,

yeah, bad things happened, he came back again,

he got it figured out, he never stopped trying.

There's no one path to success to deal with this.

It is a journey, and sometimes you stumble,

sometimes you fall, but he kept getting back up.

And if I carry anything on from my father it's that,

that don't stop trying, don't give up.

Things might change, but life is still worth living.

If I've gleaned anything from this, that's what it would be.

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