War's physical toll can last for generations.

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War's physical toll can last for generations.

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by Michael Palmer, Nora Groce And Sophie Mitra
July 16, 2019

"Injuries and impairments sustained among people directly exposed to the bombing are not surprising. Walking the streets of Ho Chi Minh City, one can see the high number of elderly amputees, whose injuries likely stemmed from the war. "

"However, perhaps surprisingly, there also seems to be a relationship between the bombings and those born as long as 15 years after the war. In districts that saw more bombings, Vietnamese people born before around 1990 have higher rates of disability than those in other parts of the country."

"People in areas that were heavily bombed are more likely to experience poor nutrition in childhood and have lower education. This, too, may indirectly cause long-term disability."

"The toll of warfare is often assessed in terms of the number of people killed. However, we feel that warfare's lasting and intergenerational consequences on health is an underacknowledged problem. The ravages of war extend far beyond the years it was waged. "

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We often hear about '' shell shock '' and post traumatic stress , battle fatigue and many other names given to soldiers returning from war zones, and often they get help. But no-one talks about the hundreds of thousands of innocent victims that sit out battles, bombings , and especially planes dropping bombs. Is it any wonder why there are so many adults needing psychiatric help when we dont know what sort of hell they went through as kids.
A girl I know spent her 5 to 7 years of age through the KR years and had demons locked up in the back of her mind . It was obvious to me she was doing her best to keep those demons and whatever she had seen or heard , locked up and occasionally all hell would break loose as they tried to break out. Having no limbs missing or battle scars does not mean they have survived a war unscathed.
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This is an amazing read originally published in 1984. I wonder if the Vietnamese (or Cambodian) vets feel the same way. Chances are, they do.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/n ... -love-war/
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Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: Wed Jul 17, 2019 8:43 pm This is an amazing read originally published in 1984. I wonder if the Vietnamese (or Cambodian) vets feel the same way. Chances are, they do.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/n ... -love-war/
That's some pretty evocative writing.

"War is beautiful. There is something about a firefight at night, something about the mechanical elegance of an M -60 machine gun. They are everything they should be, perfect examples of their form. When you are firing out at night, the red racers go out into tile blackness is if you were drawing with a light pen. Then little dots of light start winking back, and green tracers from the AK-47s begin to weave ill with the red to form brilliant patterns that seem, given their great speeds, oddly timeless, as if they had been etched on the night. And then perhaps the gunships called Spooky come in and fire their incredible guns like huge hoses washing down from the sky, like something God would do when He was really ticked off. And then the flares pop, casting eerie shadows as they float down on their little parachutes, swinging in the breeze, and anyone who moves, in their light seems a ghost escaped from hell."
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