The Lifelong Effects After The Vietnam War

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Vietnam War flashbacks are more than just internet memes-they're tied to real trauma. Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) often relive terrifying moments through sudden, vivid memories. Despite the Vietnam War ending in 1975, its psychological impact lingers on.
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@Xenonmorph__ 25 күн бұрын

My grandpa was a Nam Vet. When he finally decided to get help around the late 90s when I was born, he became the gentle and loving man I've always known him as. Very different than the angry and aggressive man my father and aunts knew growing up. His dedication to personal growth aspires me in my healing journey. I am forever greatful to my grandpa for showing me recovery is possible.

@islamicschoolofmemestudies 19 күн бұрын

Your Grandpa had a loving wife, a family and friends to support him, and he didn't sush any of them. The worse PTSD suffered by veterans are when they become alcoholic, they instead of seeking help from professionals and families, they opted to live solitary with alcohol and drugs to numb their thoughts. They spiraled out of control and then commited suicide.

@Madinfidelprepper 18 күн бұрын

What are you recovering from princess?

@stevonwhite8933 17 күн бұрын

@@Madinfidelprepper Are you that much of a sociopath, that’s your first response?

@mcfrisko834 12 күн бұрын

@@Madinfidelprepper He may have served and is possibly a vet himself bro.

@user-eh5ig5wp6l 9 күн бұрын

was he drafted or volunteered

@Jayslittlechannel 26 күн бұрын

It is actually horrific what happens to the human mind after traumatic experiences. Very sad.

@dj.girlswholgirls 26 күн бұрын

then grow tf up and do something about it child

@Jayslittlechannel 26 күн бұрын

I hope people who live through those things can get through it in a healthy way. Some do it more than others, unfortunately.

@dominojachas8141 26 күн бұрын

Sad is how the americans welcome them when they come back from war

@TheOneManWhoBeatYou 26 күн бұрын

@@dominojachas8141 Are you kidding? Other than some coming back from Vietnam most veterans are hailed as heroes when they return. Take your anti America BS elsewhere

@joeyfrancetic5811 26 күн бұрын

@@dominojachas8141 I truly hope your joking because half these vets weren't welcomed home and it would of made a big difference if that had been welcomed. If this is how your truly feel, please just keep those opinions to yourself as they can hurt many more people than you may think.

@alexanderleach3365 26 күн бұрын

PTSD is the main killer of all vets. Those who served in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan are hit the heaviest.

@justalpha9138 26 күн бұрын

My dad has C-PTSD after his five tours in Afghanistan. Its rough

@user-op8fg3ny3j 25 күн бұрын

Now imagine going through that war trauma as a kid without any support because your family was blasted and there is inadequate facilities fue to living under an occupation

@2woDreaded 25 күн бұрын

@@user-op8fg3ny3jpalestine cry baby

@thediamondgamer8337 25 күн бұрын

sadly my stepfather is one of them as he served in Iraq & Afghanistan, so him and my mother would go to casinos so he can get his mind off of those horrible memories of those wars

@DR3WSAL3M 25 күн бұрын

Because they are fighting wars for profit not for whats right. They have no business being in these wars and on foreign land. And most of you will thank them, the whole thing is sick.

@loganbrown3334 26 күн бұрын

To quote British musician Paul Hardcastle: "In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was 26, in Vietnam he was 19." I have a cousin on my dad's side who was drafted into Vietnam, while he was out on patrol his buddy stepped on a trip wire and was killed. The shrapnel from the explosive went into my cousin's face. My dad learned this when he was at a family dinner and noticed a purple spot on his cousin's face. When my dad asked what it was, his cousin said bluntly, "It's just a bit of shrapnel working its way out."

@TheHistoryDogeLovesHistory 26 күн бұрын

I have a vietnam war veteran on each side of my family. What’s sad is that ever since the war they were never the same.

@paulnash6944 26 күн бұрын

I know. We have mental health pandemic currently, which is part of the reason why I think mental health treatment should be covered by VA.

@CWG-op9td 26 күн бұрын

My uncle was never the same either 😔

@cameronhermann9400 21 күн бұрын

Sorry to hear that

@Bucky1836 26 күн бұрын

As one with non combat PTSD ....i feel for Combat Vets 😢

@robwilson90rw 25 күн бұрын

Same here ptsd is horrible!

@AJTheGreat2010 22 күн бұрын

I 100% agree with you. It is very sad for both soldiers of both sides.

@kenshirolucario2836 26 күн бұрын

My wife had met a Vietnam war vet once, she told he couldnt stand being near rice or even hear the word rice as he was pow back in the day

@billbrasky7540 26 күн бұрын

Lmfao

@Cactusgamer303 26 күн бұрын

Dang I hope he is okay

@kenshirolucario2836 26 күн бұрын

@@Cactusgamer303 He passed away unfortunately...

@jsbmx2039 26 күн бұрын

Oof that had to suck

@gungho1345 26 күн бұрын

Screw you. My dad was a Vietnam veteran and many of my friends are. I can't understand how your feeble mind finds this humorous. Many Vietnam pows were only fed one bowl of rice a day and whatever they could scrounge, like cockroaches.@@billbrasky7540

@rhyspayne5582 26 күн бұрын

I’ve been a front line police officer for 15 years, I’m 40, married and have 2 kids under 5. I was diagnosed with acute PTSD in December last year, but realised I was showing symptoms for the last 5 years and the main ones suffering were my wife and girls. Responses, attitudes and treatments for PTSD are progressing here in Australia, but more needs to be done. Videos like this raise awareness, understanding and acceptance of PTSD affects, symptoms and causation. Well done.

@Ben-eo1kr 25 күн бұрын

It’s terrible what they had to experience during the war, but it makes it even more sad when you see how many of them were treated by the public when they got home

@19Freddie 26 күн бұрын

One thing I've always hated about Vietnam is how the troops were vilified but the politicians were the ones truly at fault.

@ChadSimplicio 25 күн бұрын

People in the 1970s shunned war vets because they viewed them as those who failed to push back communist forces. Now take that mentality and apply it to those vets that served in Afghanistan.

@MrJloa 22 күн бұрын

Vietnam, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Ukraine -- soooo much in common

@aidkik580 21 күн бұрын

I'd go 50/50 on that one, the big wigs up top wanted to stay and finish that war with a definitive W but the people back home....our people...we're in the midst of the "peace not war" hippie movement an politicians being politicians instead of doing wat was right and telling the American populace stfu you don't understand what were trying to achieve here they instead did what the "voters" wanted to shore up their overpaid positions in office. The ONE time our government was doing the right thing an they let a nation of ignorant uniformed hippies stop them...

@Frosty-jk5cv 20 күн бұрын

@@MrJloayeah it will be Sad for the Russians With there trauma and guilt For failing to push back Ukraine...😢

@HaiPhan-cn6ci 20 күн бұрын

As long as the population refuses to acknowledge politicians aren't come from outerspace but just from among them. Well :)))

@theoneinonehundredthousandth 26 күн бұрын

My father fought in Vietnam. My mother said she had to wake him up by throwing a towel on him and run out of the room, because he’ll grab his gun and jump out of bed. He couldn’t watch war movies, couldn’t be around firework shows of course, and he couldn’t be around Vietnamese women. He survived getting blown up twice. But he didn’t survive Agent Orange. Vietnam was no joke. I’m a veteran myself but I’ve never been deployed to a combat zone and I’m grateful for that!

@user-xk8ix9qu7l 22 күн бұрын

Soo how are you a veteran

@AJTheGreat2010 22 күн бұрын

That is very tragic.

@SirJames-rl1mu 22 күн бұрын

A true nightmare

@straumboney1903 21 күн бұрын

Why vietnamese women specifically?

@chubbinnrubbin 20 күн бұрын

@@user-xk8ix9qu7l Veteran means you’ve served in the military in the past. It doesn’t mean you’ve been in battle. Goofy.

@blasterblake6617 26 күн бұрын

My grandpa on my father's side had quit the police force after a group of kids set off firecrackers under his unit and almost smoked one of them. My mother's father said he didn't talk about Vietnam until after watching the movie Rambo

@lordMartiya 26 күн бұрын

A horrific fact in Disney comics: a Carl Barsk story shows that Donald has PTSD from his service in the Pacific War, complete with flashbacks. His nephews triggered one while he was sleepwalking, and it wasn't pretty.

@mr.bombastic413 26 күн бұрын

My grandpa will sometimes talk about his time in the army… but almost never his time in Vietnam. Like it didn’t exist

@PROVOCATEURSK 21 күн бұрын

He was eager to go and kill humans or what? Now is he ashamed for it?

@W1ldmutt 26 күн бұрын

My father served in Vietnam during 68-69. He gets scared sometimes when he hears fireworks.

@PROVOCATEURSK 21 күн бұрын

Served? Is that what capitalists call invading countries and shooting at humans?

@GorillaWithACellphone 20 күн бұрын

@@PROVOCATEURSKthe soldiers didnt choose to go to vietnam (whether they enlisted or not), they were told what to do and either did it or faced serious legal consequences from it. Blame the Politicians of the time for forcing innocent people to kill other people who did nothing to us until we started fighting them

@camdenkeeton2411 13 күн бұрын

⁠⁠⁠⁠@@PROVOCATEURSKThey didn’t have a choice to be there, plus you’re acting like the communists were angels, I guess we just won’t mention the Hue Massacre, Hanoi Hilton, or Son Tra Massacre

@Ayden-vi1io Күн бұрын

@@PROVOCATEURSKshut up

@redjaypictures4528 25 күн бұрын

I think peaky blinders came up with the most poetic description of PTSD, in the show they constantly reference it as “the war you tell nobody about”

@GCJACK83 25 күн бұрын

I have a cousin who flew medivac in Viet Nam. He's so badly messed up by it now that he can't even be allowed to see and hear a balloon being popped because it sets his PTSD off. He goes to counseling and takes meds for it, but those can only help so much when the unseen scars are so deep.

@theautoguy96 26 күн бұрын

My dad was a serviceman in the US Navy in the late 70s early to mid 80s. People viewed it as "just another job". Service is service period. My uncle was in Vietnam and had a host of health problems after exposure to agent orange. And for all that he'd have done it again if the US asked him to. Anyone who disrespects a vet isn't worth the soil they stand on.

@harrydupuis3102 26 күн бұрын

However I will add, that if anyone deserves disrespect, it's politicians that want war. It's warmongers like them that are directly responsible for the PTSD that our vets suffer from.

@mikloridden8276 26 күн бұрын

I’d be careful with thanking every vet. Especially Vietnam era because I don’t know if they enjoyed offing woman and children which was rampant. I’ll only thank those who I know did no atrocities and fought in Vietnam honorably. Some of the worst people I’ve met were in the service. Everyone is human after all.

@stephweasenforth7891 25 күн бұрын

So…..pretty much *every* modern politician.

@user-td2jw9ze2c 25 күн бұрын

How you feel about the Yasukuni shrine?

@user-td2jw9ze2c 25 күн бұрын

@@harrydupuis3102so we should ignore all the crimes they vets committed?

@ChadSimplicio 26 күн бұрын

Helps explains why some war vets don't want people shooting off fireworks near their homes. Some fireworks sound like artillery shells or bullets whizzing by.

@badnoodlez 25 күн бұрын

yep. a buddy of mine absolutely hates the 4th of July because of that. awful irony there

@SavorySmegma 25 күн бұрын

There are literally AT LEAST *six* houses (just that *I've* happened to notice) within like a four block radius of my house that make a point to put up signs EVERY year asking people not to set off fireworks around the 4th because a veteran with PTSD lives there... But, instead of complying with that TINY request, literally *DOZENS* of families (who ALL actively try to make "supporting our troops" a part of their personality) set off literally THOUSANDS of dollars worth of high explosive fireworks, LONG into the night, for like an entire MONTH around the holiday-including until AT LEAST 1-3am ON the 4th. And, despite their *supposed* love and respect for the people who serve, every single time I've ever pointed out the fact that so many veterans in the area have those signs out and are triggered by fireworks, each and every one of them IMMEDIATELY pull these bullshit excuses about it being "for the kids" and how I'm just "trying to take away their fun" and other nonsensical ways to deflect-despite the fact that we are actually fortunate enough to have *multiple* amusement parks within 10-15 minutes of our neighborhood that ALL put on professionally choreographed, *high quality* fireworks displays that they could all take their kids too FOR FREE (and are JUST far enough away from MOST residential areas where people might not want, or be able to, deal with them.

@marcusbaker830 14 күн бұрын

@@SavorySmegmaAverage American Narcissism right there

@marcusbaker830 14 күн бұрын

@@SavorySmegmaWoah, that is horrible

@IbnRushd-mv3fp 12 күн бұрын

@SavorySmegma honestly nobody is obligated to change their life for 1 singular veteran, yeah there's "respect" but also there's just basic practicality and realistic desires.

@nightmaretrooper5064 26 күн бұрын

My Uncle Chuck has spent most of his youth in The Army served in both Vietnam and Gulf War. He stayed in The Army for decades until 2010. He doesn't mind talking about his time in Combat. Always treat a veteran like they are human beings.

@SirJames-rl1mu 22 күн бұрын

Tell him I said thank you for your service

@JoseNDoria 26 күн бұрын

A mixture of a cultural shift, popular opinion, misunderstanding/lack of information, and uncertainty of outcome in theater. Were just several of factors that impacted those who served in this conflict. Also the transition period of leaving the military to return to civilan life. Are massively different compared to the modern era. Many Vietnam era veterans at my local American Legion, still remember things clear as day.

@PROVOCATEURSK 21 күн бұрын

American christians going to a foreign country to commit sins, no wonder they are scared of what awaits them.

@bobandrew8410 26 күн бұрын

This video gonna skyrocket for sure.

@dj.girlswholgirls 26 күн бұрын

try to actually speak white racist

@MayumiC-chan9377 25 күн бұрын

My father-in-law is a veteran of the Vietnam war he had a very supportive family and relationship to help him through the times. I know how my mother-in-law feels my husband is a veteran of the South African National defense forces and he had times at night when he was in the back yard sitting on a lawn chair staring or even crying. My husband went to counseling and he like his father got through it. My husband sought to help others by gathering like minded men and women and started a private security company. As a pediatrician i understand the importance of helping other who suffer from PTSD. I found children who suffered abuse and SA and i had to contact the authorities. I will always do my best for those who suffered. I’m a mother too and not turning your back on someone you love will always help.

@pointly 26 күн бұрын

With how much this country portrays their love for servicemen, it's heartbreaking to see how many are left behind by the federal government and how many suffer. I pray for all our veterans and I hope they get the support and recognition they deserve.

@piersonperez4005 26 күн бұрын

If it counts my dad use to be NYPD. Around 9/11 he lost a buddy that during the horrific day. After the tragedy they never recovered his body. During the post 9/11 era my dad did have major stress issues eating him up and just looking back it really felt like a nightmare for him.

@mcfrisko834 12 күн бұрын

That definitely counts bro. Peace to you and your father 💯

@he77hawk.71 22 күн бұрын

I remember when I work at a dollar tree 7 years ago a Vietnam veteran was buying stuff I thanked him for his service he just cried and hugged me saying no one had ever thanked him for his service and man it crushed me it was also super awkward

@brose2323 21 күн бұрын

Yeah, my father in law was at Khe Sahn and he's got the whole package. He doesnt do rice or fire works. Im an Afghanistan veteran . Most of my trauma stems from rough upbringing and driving truck. We have interesting conversations. Im glad he was there for me during the fall of Kabul.

@thepowerofdream8772 8 күн бұрын

Your father in law is either marine or MACV.

@brose2323 8 күн бұрын

@thepowerofdream8772 yeah he is a marine. I went army.

@tmontgomery7592 26 күн бұрын

Ptsd SUCKS! The flashbacks arent just memories. You can have visual hallucinations and auditory ones. Nightmares and night terrors. It takes away everything you once were and leaves you an empty shell. The depression, the anxiety and panic attacks get old. It causes actual changes to your brain.

@jokodihaynes419 26 күн бұрын

The wounds to your body heal but the wounds to your soul will never heal

@JohnBoyAkbar 26 күн бұрын

My bodily wounds didn’t really heal and won’t. My damage is permanent. It’s a constant reminder that always brings me back. I don’t believe in soul’s but my mind is very different.

@FireFlies002 26 күн бұрын

Vietnam war flashbacks? I’m excited for this one.

@valecrassus7835 26 күн бұрын

I had read and heard about the whole "thousand yard stare" thing many times, but I've only seen it in person once. It's pretty unmistakable. It's sort of a permanent glassy-eyed expression, or it may not be all the time, but they slip into it. Like if they're paying attention to what you're saying and looking at you while you're speaking, from your perspective, it seems like they're looking past or right through you.

@brandonlm0125 26 күн бұрын

The VA has determined that your vivid war flashbacks are not service connected.

@rsbandbj1 25 күн бұрын

Because a flashback is a symptom, not the cause.

@brandonlm0125 25 күн бұрын

@@rsbandbj1 a symptom of…. What? The traumatic experience that is the base of depression, anxiety, substance use disorder, suicidal ideation, etc? The VA drs act like the money to treat or compensate you comes out of their pocket. I’m convinced they get kick backs for denials.

@rsbandbj1 25 күн бұрын

@@brandonlm0125 actually VHA MDs don't receive anything if they are denied. Your C&P doesn't get a bonus for denying a SC diagnosis. And I know you are very well aware, VHA does not ultimately decide if a condition is SC or not. That's the VBA, all those notes go to them for evaluation. And keep in mind, I'm sure many of the VSR are your fellow vets. and again, the nightmares you may be having are not the source. As you stated, it is the traumatic experience that caused those nightmares. would you not be having nightmares if it wasn't some Degree of PTSD?

@GorillaWithACellphone 20 күн бұрын

@@brandonlm0125the flashbacks are a symptom. They’re a symptom of larger psychological trauma caused by the war. The flashbacks are usually accompanied by all the the other you mentioned, making them a “symptom”.

@brandonlm0125 19 күн бұрын

@@GorillaWithACellphone again, I said “a symptom of what” because I’m well aware what post traumatic stress disorder is (see my previous reply to the comment). The joke/sarcasm wouldn’t have been funny if I said “the va denied your claim of post traumatic stress disorder and chronic treatment resistant depression with suicidal ideation”.

@tompegorinno5141 26 күн бұрын

No Squidward. I won't allow it! Not after what happened-- back in 'Nam. - Mr. Krabs, Vietnam War Vet.

@kremepye3613 25 күн бұрын

Vietnam war had such a high rate of ptsd because the soldiers spent the most amount of time in combat then any war before and after, something like 280 days per rotation (not sure exact number) compared to like 30 days for ww2 vets

@randomizerteleviewage307 20 күн бұрын

Had a family friend who passed a few years ago that escaped a POW camp in Vietnam. My mom told me stories of how the war affected him until he died. The two biggest examples I can remember was her telling me that she witnessed him speaking fluent Vietnamese in his sleep, likely memories of what his captors were saying because he didn't actually know the language himself, and the second instance on a brighter note was the time my mom made some kind of Indian dish upon inviting him over for dinner one time and it was his first time eating rice since the war and kind of broke him of that trauma so to speak. Miss you Rick

@jesuschristsuperczar1224 26 күн бұрын

One quick note: Gulf War Syndrome and PTSD not the same. Carry on…

@semaluhtounuyulohowwah-lw8xu 25 күн бұрын

What’s the difference?

@dobridjordje 23 күн бұрын

@@semaluhtounuyulohowwah-lw8xuGulf war syndrome was done because various chemicals were used during it which later caused physical deformities on the body, nothing with PTSD.

@semaluhtounuyulohowwah-lw8xu 23 күн бұрын

@@dobridjordje Thanks

@user-kr7yh8vw9m 25 күн бұрын

Thank you Simple History for this fascinating video, well done. It really pains me for all those veterans to go through so much turmoil after having seen the horrors of war and it also pains me how the public turned their backs on them before they recieved the support they needed😔.

@brainflash1 26 күн бұрын

They made an entire movie series about Vietnam flashbacks: Rambo.

@kittycatwithinternetaccess2356 26 күн бұрын

i love that movie

@AstonMonks 26 күн бұрын

*First Blood

@jamesedwardladislazerrudo1378 25 күн бұрын

The office finale scene was so heartbreaking.

@dobridjordje 23 күн бұрын

@@AstonMonksYes the rest were kind of crap lol

@hemidas 10 күн бұрын

Just the first one, the second was atypical, run of the mill 80s action movie, an the third one...uhm...we don't talk about that one. 💦

@SeanDendy-mk5fi 26 күн бұрын

I support veterans they help and support love and care they are people and friends im glad there getting help they need

@joedirt3449 26 күн бұрын

All these vets are my people! No man left behind!

@mikekennedy4572 25 күн бұрын

My brother in law was wounded twice in Vietnam while serving as a sergeant in the 101st Airborne, getting shot in the neck during one tour, and hit in the bicep during the other one. How he survived is beyond me. But after all that, he volunteered to serve a third combat tour. However, the Army wanted him to serve stateside as an airborne instructor. He was so set about returning to Vietnam, and the Army would not budge, so he quit and returned to civilian life. He eventually became a sheriff's deputy in Los Angeles.

@PROVOCATEURSK 21 күн бұрын

Stop calling it serving, Vietnam didn´t invade USA.

@GorillaWithACellphone 20 күн бұрын

@@PROVOCATEURSKany military veteran, combat or not, “served”. Whether it was by enlisting or draft, they still served their country

@Fisherman952 26 күн бұрын

My grandfathers, mom side navy WWII, dad side korea and nam US army. Never heard a word form the two about the wars. Mom side grandpa, when the dementia kicked and with some research, I found out he was in the think of it. Dad side, wounded at the busan peremeter at 16 years old. Three tours in nam including tet 68. He survived a shoot down in H 1 chopper he jumped out got busted up in the fall laid in rice patty for 3 day before a patrol found him. Everone else on the helo was KIA.

@TitanAEX4 26 күн бұрын

It's worth highlighting how criminally-underfunded the Department of Veterans Affairs really is. Hundreds, if not thousands of veterans report having to wait weeks, months, even _years_ to receive treatment that they desperately need *_NOW._* Vietnam had a more profound impact on our troops than many of us realize, and it certainly doesn't help that servicemen were ostracized due to political and cultural climates at the time. The experiences these veterans suffer daily are not just "in their head." It is a horrible, _horrible_ nightmare that they can never seem to wake up from.

@jadentetzlaff1108 26 күн бұрын

Such an iconic phrase, even people who weren't in this war use it to describe something traumatizing in the past that happened to them. Most likely not as tragic or sad as an actual Vietnam flashback but it really conveys a message. Thanks for this informative video soldier 🫡

@YouAreStillNotablaze 26 күн бұрын

It isn't just something resulting from experiencing combat. It's not 'being used to describe' a psychological result from an experience, it is the definition of that kind of negative result from an experience.

@wn8022 26 күн бұрын

Great Video. Thank you for posting. 👏👏 (loved the library scenes)

@Matlikso 25 күн бұрын

R.I.P. and huge respect to those who died for their country and to veterans suffering from PTSD... Many of Poles that were fighting in ww1 mainly in Haller's Blue Army and in Russian Imperial Army had PTSD, but in my country that is Poland this is small number comparing to American veterans that are suffering from PTSD..

@WutAPunk 26 күн бұрын

Bro got shushed two times in the library

@dante666jt 14 күн бұрын

Even though i am well aware of ptsd by now, i still open to see the animations here. Which has been the usp of this channel from the beginning! The sync of the audio with the visual aspects is really well done and they keep up with the good work. Even the sponsor break is seamlessly integrated within that it won't seem boring or disconnected.

@dante666jt 14 күн бұрын

7:54 such subtle, yet so impactful! The vet also visibly is speaking softly as he got self aware that he was inside a library! Amazing work, SH!

@silverlightfox6621 12 күн бұрын

My grandfather Brian Crumley served in vietnam for 3 years and he celebrated his 21st birthday there. He never talks about vietnam much and whenever I've asked about it he's given be some vague stories about mundane task he had to go do etc. But that's all - I empathize deeply for those who experience this affliction and just want to say ,if your suffering from any mental illness. Seek help. Even if you cannot afford it seek help somehow. Talk to someone- there is someone who wants to listen somewhere.

@BufftatJunkie 22 күн бұрын

My late grandfather served in Vietnam in the airforce and because of his service suffered from PTSD. I hardly knew the man until the very latter years of his life due to his history of various sources of substance abuse. I too suffer from PTSD even though I have never been in the military, and as I work with my doctors I find myself increasingly appreciative that the medical community recognizes it and how it can affect people.

@anglo-saxon9182 25 күн бұрын

Ive got ptsd over words being said it makes me irrated and anxious and sad

@furiousdestroyer2.050 26 күн бұрын

Man better help sucks all the controversy they suck a nd even thought they said they changed they never did

@warriorson7979 25 күн бұрын

This is SO sad...😣😢😢😢

@aidans666 7 күн бұрын

My grandfather fought in this war. He got malaria and was honorably | medically discharged. He passed in 2000 due to complications from agent orange exposure. I never even got to meet him. He was 53. He was drafted at age 20

@minutemanstudios1338 12 күн бұрын

My dad is a gulf war vet, he hates the smell of natural gas from the oil fires, sleeps with the door open , and when he got back he hear a bell like sound which was the symbol for gas attack and he started reaching for his gas mask…..in a car dealership. He heard a woodpecker and dove on the ground. He’s finally getting more help from the VA after 30 something years

@AlwaysADekaranger 26 күн бұрын

This is why the Vietnam war shouldn't happen at all.

@Frosty_tha_Snowman 22 күн бұрын

This video never showed up on my news feed. I saw others saying the same thing

@Nolongerpartofthisworld 19 күн бұрын

This is gonna be the perfect time for this since May is mental health awareness month

@danieldiazruiz4521 9 күн бұрын

I'm currently in my local chapter of SADD and when I came for my first SADD meeting I met a girl who's father was a Vietnam Vet that had PTSD and he began to severely drink and drug and began to hit his wife and take it out her and began to OD often and that lead to a divorce with his wife and she tried to reconnect with him but he kept doing drugs and he eventually died due to an overdose and she talks about it to students in other high schools and when she talked about it to me it made me Crack and expose my own abusive relationship with my own father and that lead to a 2 year war that it was always a secret war that was going on for 5 years and I credit her for opening my eyes to my own father's toxic abuse with me.....her name was Stephanie

@TheJMan1K 19 күн бұрын

My grandpa still has them and turned 80 this year

@angrygamer45 17 күн бұрын

My Grandfather served in the theater and there was a few times when I was a kid I would see him stare blankly at the TV even though it was turned off. One that stood out to me was when a car backfired (One of those mufflers that sounds like an AK-only assholes put on their cars) and he started to take immediate cover, my grandparents lived in a relatively quiet neighborhood in central PA, Another one was what my Mom told me during the Camp Hill prison riots in the 80s he sat in his Lazy Boy just staring out to space because of the choppers and shotguns going off and at the time they had a Dog and she sat right next to my Grandfather during the whole ordeal.

@napalmman8292 14 күн бұрын

Man…those horrible things they encountered during the war, the body came back home but soul still stuck in the war…

@frankisfunny2007 11 күн бұрын

I'm glad that the Better Help ad is appropriate for the on topic at hand. And though it is a means of getting your money, the app may actually help PTSD victims. Rather than a random ad from sponsors like NordVPN, or something that isn't related to the topic.

@lynnroney1234 24 күн бұрын

Last year I had the privilege of meeting a Vietnam Vet who was giving a talk in front of a huey. He noticed that I was very familiar with that war. We ended up having a long talk about his experiences there. I told him that the newsreels of hueys dropping soldiers off to battle and transporting dead and wounded back, is the first picture that enters my mind remembering that war. He told me about the worst experience he had there. He was 19 years old on a crew on a huey. All the others were 19 years old. What happened was horrific and all I could think was that all of them, the soldier who was tortured to death and never talked, A YEAR AGO THEY WERE GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL AND THIS 19 YEAR OLD KIDS LIFE ENDED LIKE THAT🤬🤬🤬🤬. This vet actually talked about his PTSD that he has to this day. My heart goes out to him. I will never forget him.

@jasonbullock2816 20 күн бұрын

I understand of mental health. Good luck to all suffering

@nofilterhistory 25 күн бұрын

Yeah even watching videos from Vietnam puts me close to PTSD

@lawrencegarcia8483 19 күн бұрын

My dad served in Vietnam with the 101st Airborne Division 1st Batallion 327th infantry regiment 2nd platoon Delta Company he is a Veteran of the Tet Offensive and Hamburger Hill out of 15 kids my dad knew from his hometown I'm Texas only 2 came home alive to this day my dad has sleep apnea and Sever nightmares

@TheYoungCollector 23 күн бұрын

My neighbor Peter was a Naval gunship pilot in Vietnam and is a recipient of a Silver Star, Distinguished Flying Cross, and Purple Heart. I just did an interview with him and he said that he had to work on himself for a very long time to get over the war.

@wolf1597 12 күн бұрын

Imagine that murdering civilizations in other countries causes ptsd

@andresarenas7565 23 күн бұрын

In Bogota, Colombia, a Vietnam veteran (born and raised in Colombia) had a severe episode of PTSD and killed 29 people in a restaurant called Pozzeto, it happened in 1986

@kingmichealthefirstofroman2278 26 күн бұрын

the Anzac legends didn't mention mud and blood and tears And the stories that my father told me never seemed quite real I caught some pieces in my back that I didn't even feel God help me, I was only 19 And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep? Any why the Channel Seven chopper chills me to my feet? And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means? God help me - I was only 19 (lee kernaghan)

@KyleShiflet13666 26 күн бұрын

I was only 19 by redgum

@invalidargument2.0 26 күн бұрын

Rash? Is that related to PTSD? Genuinely curious now after reading that!

@KyleShiflet13666 26 күн бұрын

@@invalidargument2.0 it's probably a reference to Agent Orange

@billbrasky7540 26 күн бұрын

@@KyleShiflet13666 ohhh... I thought it was a rash from the "me-so-ho'ny" chick from FMJ

@kingmichealthefirstofroman2278 26 күн бұрын

@@billbrasky7540it could be one of the things

@Normal_Pal 26 күн бұрын

That's why you should not think war is simple

@johnneill5960 24 күн бұрын

I spent 9 years in combat including being wounded in Afghanistan. Yeh , ptsd is awful . Not a day goes by where I’m not impacted by what we went through.

@mujoikanovic6897 21 күн бұрын

My father is a Nam Vet. When mom first married him he would tell me bits and pieces of what the war was like. Now that he is 82 he doesn't want to talk about at all. I think the closer you reach the end, the more you would think about the things you done/saw. And the more you wish you could forget it. I thank God and the good men that sacrifice and have sacrificed so we don't have to 🇺🇲

@BlankName322 25 күн бұрын

7:55 THE LANDMARK 🗣️‼️

@kremepye3613 25 күн бұрын

My neighbour was an aussie infantry vet from vietnam, the VA gave him Champix to quit smoking and at night he was screaming and rolling around on his back lawn "back in the jungle knife fighting" he was a conscript and that war ruined his life.

@nguyenmaihoa5153 26 күн бұрын

Im form VN anh thank you very much for making a video about our country

@NPC-Gamer 18 күн бұрын

My grandfather is a Nam vet. I remember when we were kids, you'd have to use a broom stick to wake him from his naps, otherwise you could get hit by him defedning himself from what he believed to be an attack. He got help years ago and was much better after.

@SirJames-rl1mu 22 күн бұрын

True terror

@jeffreyayscue2425 26 күн бұрын

I sorry for all Army for the war like World War 1 and World War 2 and Vietnam war and Now. War is Not Fun and Happy. See people have is be me and people sad and sorry for the people fight for free and stop the war at the people home.😢😢

@jackjohnston1298 26 күн бұрын

No wonder Rambo suffered like that😢

@arkansaslibertarian5051 18 күн бұрын

My dad is 75, still struggling with it. Advancing age isn't helping.... Thankfully he is now on Medicare and no longer using the VA

@alfredpaquin3563 20 күн бұрын

Unable to express emotions, even with family. Hop up and down when I got dressed to make their were no rattles or clinks.

@bruno8126 19 күн бұрын

My dad is a Vietnam vet. That is the only way we know him :( My uncle said that as a teen before getting drafted he was a whole different man.. PTSD attacks you in different ways

@jtgd 26 күн бұрын

7:54 “THE LANDMARK! 😊” “The landmark 😮”

@josor7898 26 күн бұрын

Could we make a video of Nakba or Intifada?

@TelmenBudsuren 18 күн бұрын

Most people: PTSD Some people: Ah the good times My grandpa: PTSD? You mean spicy nostalgia?

@sandwageeater3822 18 күн бұрын

God help me I was only 19 listen to that song that explains this a whole lot

@JeremiahWolfe-tz6gk 25 күн бұрын

I admit that I looked up a lot of memes about vietnam flashbacks but I understand that it’s not a laughing matter. Even though I have a selective service card I know that I would never be able to serve as i not only have autism and adhd but I have stuff and fluff as winnie the pooh calls it.

@MdickieFilms 26 күн бұрын

2:15 is that the backyard from Phineas and Ferb?

@VanickGoodwin-Mao 24 күн бұрын

Can you make a video about the khmer republic and lon nol?

@chengkuoklee5734 26 күн бұрын

War... war never changes...

@darkamora5123 4 күн бұрын

The Vietnam War ended in 1973 with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords. That less than a day after signing those accords the North violated the Accord and started fighting the South Vietnamese forces doesn't change that. The only American troops still in Vietnam in 1975 were attached to the US Embassy, and the "Fall of Saigon" was an evacuation of Embassy personnel and friendly locals, not some horrible over running of American troops forcing a retreat. Oh, and the scene portrayed in the thumbnail, the "Civilian' being shot by South Vietnamese troops, is unwitting propaganda perpetuated by the world media. That "civilian" was an ARVN (North Vietnamese Army) major who had been sent south on a spying mission and caught by the South Vietnamese Army counter-intelligence. A spy, in other words, and as with most countries during war, a spy was liable to be summarily executed (Enemy troops caught spying, not scouting. Uniforms are fine but once you wear civilian clothes or friendly troop clothes you cease to be protected as a combatant) were often shot on the spot in combat zones

@jk-es6nf 22 күн бұрын

I think this just proves the mental fortitude of the men’s from WW2 and beyond

@the_only_mexican9354 25 күн бұрын

"Cause im still in Saigon!!"

@tundranomad 26 күн бұрын

As an OR RN, I used to work with an ortho surgeon that was a surgeon in Vietnam. When he would get stressed out and pissed off during surgery, he would yell out "CHARLIES IN THE WIRE"!!! then he would be OK.

@akillerpacman1709 26 күн бұрын

My dad told me he snuck out once and his dad caught him, he snuck behind him slammed him against the wall started telling him “He’s gotta stay inside the line or he’d get everyone killed.”

@Pancake_001 24 күн бұрын

You should make a b-17 cross section like you did with the lancaster

@thesmileguy2159 21 күн бұрын

I remember when I was younger my friend had a grandpa who was a Nam vet and he couldn’t stand loud noises and whenever he saw a Asian he said “ITS THE ENEMY” doesn’t matter if it’s the person is Chinese, Japanese or Mongolian, he would still have a bit of ptsd.