Al Simmons-Viet Nam War Veteran
This toy is perfect to assist people with PTSD from living in the war zone and facing horrors that they never want to talk about.
Five years ago we took my father to Fagen Fighters WWII Museum. My father was in the Air Force during World War II and was stationed in Hiroshima shortly after the bomb blast to work in the airport control tower. As he was coming out of a plane in the exhibit, at the top of the stairs leading down, the guide asked him for a memory of the war. He stated that the moment he left the plane upon landing in Hiroshima, the smell of all the rotting bodies from the bomb blast hit him. We had never heard this memory before and only recently even knew he had been in Hiroshima and toured the blast site. It is very common for veterans to have little or no interest in discussing their horrific experiences in the theater of war.
This toy embodies the horror of war well. If you are still alive, you have to fight, you have to be prepared to kill. At the same time, you may see the body of your friends and buddies in pieces around you: one moment bumming a cigarette, the next dead and gone. The horrors are war can linger far into one's life and the circumstances are few where it feels appropriate to say anything about it.
Perhaps this toy can be helpful in working with veterans, providing a focus for talking about personal losses during the period of serving one's country and being prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice and knowing those who have.
This toy is perfect to assist people with PTSD from living in the war zone and facing horrors that they never want to talk about.
Five years ago we took my father to Fagen Fighters WWII Museum. My father was in the Air Force during World War II and was stationed in Hiroshima shortly after the bomb blast to work in the airport control tower. As he was coming out of a plane in the exhibit, at the top of the stairs leading down, the guide asked him for a memory of the war. He stated that the moment he left the plane upon landing in Hiroshima, the smell of all the rotting bodies from the bomb blast hit him. We had never heard this memory before and only recently even knew he had been in Hiroshima and toured the blast site. It is very common for veterans to have little or no interest in discussing their horrific experiences in the theater of war.
This toy embodies the horror of war well. If you are still alive, you have to fight, you have to be prepared to kill. At the same time, you may see the body of your friends and buddies in pieces around you: one moment bumming a cigarette, the next dead and gone. The horrors are war can linger far into one's life and the circumstances are few where it feels appropriate to say anything about it.
Perhaps this toy can be helpful in working with veterans, providing a focus for talking about personal losses during the period of serving one's country and being prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice and knowing those who have.
This toy is perfect to assist people with PTSD from living in the war zone and facing horrors that they never want to talk about.
Five years ago we took my father to Fagen Fighters WWII Museum. My father was in the Air Force during World War II and was stationed in Hiroshima shortly after the bomb blast to work in the airport control tower. As he was coming out of a plane in the exhibit, at the top of the stairs leading down, the guide asked him for a memory of the war. He stated that the moment he left the plane upon landing in Hiroshima, the smell of all the rotting bodies from the bomb blast hit him. We had never heard this memory before and only recently even knew he had been in Hiroshima and toured the blast site. It is very common for veterans to have little or no interest in discussing their horrific experiences in the theater of war.
This toy embodies the horror of war well. If you are still alive, you have to fight, you have to be prepared to kill. At the same time, you may see the body of your friends and buddies in pieces around you: one moment bumming a cigarette, the next dead and gone. The horrors are war can linger far into one's life and the circumstances are few where it feels appropriate to say anything about it.
Perhaps this toy can be helpful in working with veterans, providing a focus for talking about personal losses during the period of serving one's country and being prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice and knowing those who have.