The 8000-Mile Sniper Shot: I've Lost Friends To Combat, Now I'm Losing Them To Suicide

[pinboy3niner]

4. I get it--and all my respect to the Navy Cross recipient in the OP

And to you, Victor_c3, you hang in there, brother.

The closest I came, when I actually was gonna DO IT, my hands began trembling and shaking--and I discovered, in that moment, that my survival instinct was just too strong to allow me to off myself like that.

We have a lot in common, Victor_c3. Different wars--and mine was long ago, now--but the same shit. The feelings you've expressed in your posts are familiar to vets of any war. I've read accounts written by Vietnamese ("enemy&quot veterans of my war that say pretty much the same thing.

You and I have come to face the same challenges and struggles, but each of our journies are different. My sense of you is that your'e gonna struggle like hell, bro--but you're gonna make it.

In one of the movies about my war, there was an epilogue that struck home:

"Those of us who DID make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try, with what's left of our lives, to find a goodness and a meaning to this life."

You're gonna struggle, brother. But you're gonna make it. And along the way, you're gonna do GOOD things.

I love you brother.

Love & Peace,
pinboy3niner