Try talking about it after the song … let it soak in and then think about it the whole song
One of the very few songs that brings me to tears every time i hear it.
2 time Army combat Veteran 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions here
They are a huge supporter of our military and vets! Thank you! One of the best concerts I’ve ever seen
Great, now you get it, America.
Every time I watch this video, it brings me to tears. We are not worthy of our veterans unless we do better for them.
As a Vet, I thank you for bringing awareness to this issue. More need to understand and help.
You should check out Five Finger Death Punch Judgement Day
As a veteran with PTSD I can’t watch this video without crying. Having looked down the barrel of my own gun and trying to find ANY reason not to pull the trigger, I feel deeply for my Brothers and Sisters (Never forget our sisters) who have had it even worse than I did. People who take their own lives don’t want to die. They want the pain to stop.
Thank you…
American ‘veterans’ are invaders. They were defending oil, not people.
Don’t understand the hero worship when they are glorified mercenaries.
Anything after WW1 & WW2 is not heroic
I always knew i was willing to give my life for my brothers and i always questioned why im still here when so many are not. It took decades of self destruction and nights of seeing them everyday in my “dreams” before i came to understand that yes i would gladly change places whit them but they were no different than me. I needed to stop hating myself for living and be grateful for their gift of life to me. They were my brothers and like me they too were willing to give their life for me. I thank you brother especially Steve. In the short time i knew you you lifted me up out of a dark time.
As a vet of 4 deployments who lost his family to my own PTSD struggles this time of year is exceptionally difficult. Nobody should have to do this alone, yet here we are, misunderstood, scared, alone, and disregarded. Thank you for sharing this video. The work to heal is intense and a life-long journey, but worth it. I am 2 years out from hitting the bottom, but that doesn’t meant I don’t struggle. I am in a better place, but I still feel many of these same things every day. I know how to handle some of it, but some days it is harder. Today is one of those days, but I am glad I found this.
I’m not a Vet. But I struggle with the same delyma. I talked my Mother into a surgery that killed her. After being her " caregiver " for 8 years. It brought up thins from my childhood. My father was a paranoid skitofreentic, I saw my first rotting human bodies at 12 years old. Then I had an accident with brain trauma at 16 . When I was 17 I saw my Uncle get murdered, his throat was cut and he was gutted like a pig. When I found a guy that was sat on fire a couple of years later,I felt nothing like the people that saw it also.
After watching your video, I’ll say this. That song breaks me wide open anytime I hear it. I just bust out into tears. I can’t even listen to it anymore. I lost 4 friends while I was in Iraq for a year. I spent 8 years in the Army. The only things that we really know as combat vets is 1. that we want to avoid. A lot! Avoid the things that bring us pain and 2. We feel like we can only count on each other. It’s a matter of trust because we have all spilled the same blood in the same mud. My ex wife divorced me after I came back from Iraq. The son I had with her I haven’t seen since he was 2 weeks old. He was born on September 17th 2009. When we all came back from Iraq, everyone had families to come home to. I was alone. I had no one. Not even my parents. No one. It was the loneliest I had ever felt. I’ve been in patient for PTSD and alcohol abuse 5 times in the past. I’m not homeless and remarried now but for us, relationships are really really hard to make work forever. Even today, I isolate a lot. I don’t like people. I don’t trust people. I’m angry a lot. Resentful of my government. Most veterans with combat experience probably feel in similar ways. Life never got better after the war for me. It got worse. I wanted to go back in but I was medically discharged and now I’m 100% disabled in the VA system. Just a little insight to my experience. I’m sure other vets have had similar experiences if they are even willing to talk about it which most aren’t. All the prolonged exposure therapy made it a bit easier for me. That’s all.
300k Homeless veterans, just the veterans, there are many more, but these veterans put their life on the line for the country, the citizens, and they had some idea of what might happen, what it might do to them, but do the ones not having gone through it really know ? A lot of countries do a bad job of helping them afterwards, the US too is shit at it. They’re bad at doing anything while they are there, returning, going back, and so on, nothing being done when it’s most important basically.
And again, 300k, just the veterans.
The US system is rotten to the core, they do not care about you, at all, or the government would do things differently, make changes, it is far too little, far too late.
And the rich and powerful do not care, they have chosen a system about 7-8 decades ago that was obviously not going to work, and kept at it, they’re gouging you for all they can, it is unsustainable, and so far, the people are not seeing it, or just taking it, due to shit education, the government not cooperating, people having bought into the freedom bullshit, more like freeDUMB.
And you have your 2A to keep your government accountable if need be, but there aren’t even proper mass protests in every major every single damn they, as there should be.
By doing nothing, you are condoning it, choosing it. Wait long enough, and you WILL become a Russia or North-Korea. Frankly, i am wondering if i might see another US civil war in my lifetime.
I’ve been raised to respect veterans from a young age my mum and dad use to take me to our local town and there was always a homeless vet who slept in a bus stop so whenever we would go my parents would leave me outside with him and they’d go in to coop and get him some food drinks and crossword puzzle’s because he loved them and I’d just sit out there talking to him and playing with his dog my mum also use to be a veterinarian so she’d give his dog a check over and we’d bring him some toys and dog food as well but he told me some insane stories and It really opened my eyes at a young age and I am really grateful for that what’s worse was he had his injury checks stolen from him by his sister which is why he was homeless so after awhile of helping him out we found out about this and got our family lawyer to help him gave him the money to set him up to take his sister to court and we found out that he won and is living in another part of our country and is doing really well for him self I wish we could of kept in touch but I’m just glad he is doing better now what was really amazing was our lawyer didn’t take any money from us or from him even tho we tried to pay her but she did it for free and that really helped me as a child
I am an Army veteran from OEF, and I was a part of ISAF. I deployed to Afghanistan in 2009 - 2010. One day while I was in Cop Conlon, I was suppose to go on patrol with my unit. I am a Communications specialist and Cop Conlon was a new base we were working on. The satellite uplink would drift and the systems would not track. I had to stay behind that day to manually jog the link to get our comms back. As soon as we got the link up and running again we got reports that there could be activity on the patrol route. We rushed to get the message to our Patrol and they halted the convoy. Moments later the truck I was suppose to be in went up in smoke. 8 Anti-tank mines were planted under the road. I lost 4 friends that day.
I still wonder why I am here. My first Sergeant and Staff Sergeant lost their cool that day and yelled at me, saying I should be dead. They should not have died and that I should be gone. This still goes through my head and I wonder why I am still alive, when they are gone. They sent me to Bagram, where they took my weapon, fearing that what happened, I would do something stupid. It is a very low time, when you lose your brothers and the others don’t want you there.
I am still here fighting, and I still wonder sometimes, why that things unfolded the way they did.
As a veteran I have to say please don’t fall for the propaganda.
Aside from some people in the intelligence agencies and SOF, no one has protected america from anything in 80years.
Good intelligence work, would have prevented 9/11(clinton had the opportunity to take out bin Laden years before 9/11 but chose not to as an example.)
There was nothing a grunt was protecting America from in Iraq or Afghanistan, and every service member I spoke to in every branch never said patriotism or protecting freedom was the reason they joined, but some how every veteran including some of those same people list those reasons as why they enlisted once they’re out.
I served 14 years Army and more than half of my time in was spent in the Middle East between Iraq and Afghanistan. I stupidly pushed through the medical screening like so many Vets do when we get back to see our family and friends to get some sort of normalcy in our life again. Unfortunately, we learn quickly that war has changed us more than we could understand. The screaming nightmares, the daydreams of horrific things you saw and did, and the despair of survivor guilt that tears at your soul. Now our family, friends, and coworkers only see what they can understand and it’s sometimes just too much. We were always taught to suck it up and drive on, but that’s not an option as a civilian. So many Vets don’t have a system that supports them and people that understand them. I think this video sums that thought up very well. Sometimes all it takes is a little bit of kindness to show a Vet they matter, because on a bad day that can make all the difference in the world. We are people too, just a bit broken and misunderstood.