I hated my dad. He fought next to high explosives throughout his career in the Army in the Pacific during WWII. I was born in 1944 when he was attacking Angaur near Palau and experiencing explosives who in a moment of time many years later he explained the explosives he experienced and later said my mother saved his life from "Shell Shock". I never got to meet him before the war injuries. I forgive myself now for my fear of his anger, his addictions, and later his decline. He was and is a hero. He was drafted and trained for two years to do the invasions heading towards Japan. My two daughters got to know him in the nursing home when he had "mellowed" out according to them. We didn't know. My mother refused to leave him in spite of his rage. He did survive. I too survived and learned of his lifelong suffering. I'm thankful that my enlistment at the age of 17 was not a repeat. Thanks to the medical profession that is now investigating the disaster of super blasts. I experienced them but not like many other vets experienced. We all need healing, kindness and forgiveness.
@@firstlast8258 He is speaking for himself. I don't agree with his opinion which to my way of thinking is little more than a form of apologism on behalf of corrupt authority. And so it goes. Humanity is really little more than a suicide cult run by pathological liars with very few of us men and women of authenticity and honor. The powers that be have been deliberately covering up the issue of brain injuries since time and memorial, all the way back to the days when Roman rulers deliberately spiked the wine of their day with lead acetate. It's all about social control with all of us afflicted with brain injuries to be exploited as scapegoats, all the way unto death. blah blah blah. humanity is too corrupt and wiollfully stupid, this to the point where there are no adult conversations about any matter of importance in any forum. most especially this one.
During my son's two deployments I was nearly catatonic with fear. I'm forever grateful he returned mostly unscathed. I have immense empathy for these parents.
When my son was considering enlisting, my anxiety and stress immediately started, I even called his enlistment office and pleaded that he was my only child. Luckily, he went to trade school and graduated with a Machinist certification. Though for the life of me I cannot even begin to imagine your fear even if I tried. ❤🩹❤🩹
I've seen people recover. It is not easy and does any of us really recover as we enter old age? Everyone dies one way or another. It is not pretty and can happen at any age. Most of the people that were part of my life are dead. By 70 most of the important people in our lives are in the cemetery. I know that my parents would have recovered with no major trauma if I had died. My grandparents would have been heart broken but my parents at times literally did things that would have put them in prison today. They were clueless about children and felt that every normal or even healthy thing a child or teen does against their wishes should be met with violence or a threat to your life.
I’m rated 100% disabled for PTSD through the VA. The #1 thing that helped after a decade long battle was becoming 100% sober. I didn’t realize that my PTSD was exacerbated by chronic cannabis use along with alcohol abuse, clonopine use and nicotine withdrawals.
God bless you. I pray you will continue to do better. You deserve - DESERVE - a normal, peaceful life: you risked your life to give me a normal, peaceful life. There is no amount of tax money that can be begrudged our soldiers to help them with the dreadful consequences of war. My father was a World War II veteran. He was 'only' in the Coast Guard and 'only' a machinist's mate on an escort ship in the South Pacific. He never talked about his war experience. My mother said that after the War, they had to get separate beds because in his nightmares he would kick her out of bed. When he was in his nineties, he was still having the nightmares. Only once did he tell me why he had the nightmares: the sheer terror of being on a ship that was being torpedoed or strafed by a plane or having bombs dropping around the ship and the ship rocking violently and nearly capsizing, while you felt like a complete sitting duck, unable to do anything, go anywhere, escape in any way. As far as I know, my father never manned a gun, never 'fought' in a battle, and yet he was still traumatized by his war experiences in his nightmares in his 90s. If his experiences did that to him, I can't imagine how traumatized men must be who were engaged in 'real' combat. It is beyond time that we took the mental and psychological consequences of war with the utmost seriousness and urgency.
I would like to give my two cents and just say that at times when cannabis was legally available to me, it actually helped reduce my symptoms and made me able to function. After being able to work through my trauma I stopped using it because I had always just wanted to be able to be totally sober and just ok again. I also recognize that different people might have different reactions to it or might be predisposed to have a bad reaction. I just want to give my experience that when I was in the thick of it, for me personally, it was a life saver and also easy to disuse when I had overcome the biggest hurdles associated with trauma and I could return to being functional and sober. I hope that one day more research is done into recognizing who should and shouldn't consider using a medication possibly derived from cannabis under a medical setting, in cases where it might alleviate the symptoms of trauma in individuals.
thanks to all the families, and service men and women, i gave sgt gilmore his last meal after a prayer, a jewish chaplain gave me 2 meals i gave him one, 45 min later he died, by an ied, that was the first day of hell, i spent a whole month in sadr city getting shot at , mortared at extremely close range, so close my buddies got concussions from the blasts, we got rocketed, shot at, for a month straight.. this was april 2008 i spent my 21st birthday there, i still live with everything today, constant recurring memories that dont leave..... dont give up your not alone....x files
@@ivreiceman20257 how they are a hero when the whole thing was a fn lie it was an unjust and a war of lies bush and his whole administration intentionally deceived the American ppl to go to war.
America is a violent country. We average a war every 20 years. We spend billions of dollars annually on military and weapons. We imprison more people than any other country. We hand out guns like candy on Halloween.
One major differences with this yearly ‘gathering/ bonding same feelings of loss- an immediate bond bc same pain. Thank Blue n Gold ladies group for setting this most sensitive method of expression, empathy, and unity .
Please pass the Major Richard Star Act, our Dad had brain injury and was medical retired at 19 years, he fell 1 year short of retirement and has to pay dollar for dollar all of his VA benefits from his retirement. Please stop this madness we need your support.
This is really hard to watch, but also really important to understand that we most not judge others and we should listen. Thank you for your sacrifice and service for our country. God bless
My heart is breaking with these veterans stories and their suffering and sacrifices 💔💔💔 Thank you to all the veterans for your service to keep myself and my children and grandchildren free!❤️💙🙏
I didn't know about prolonged exposure therapy but I've used the same kind of technique (realizing on my own that I needed to try to rehash and expose myself to the memories so that they would have less of an unbidden effect on me) for the same kinds of symptoms after seeing a kid die in his mother's arms when I was a child, only beginning to use the technique almost a decade after the fact, and it's helped a lot. One of the things that can also happen is that you can't remember what the traumatic event was, and then you're just lost in that state without a way to get better until you can remember. I didn't remember for about seven years.
I got PTSD from being assaulted by "men" 6 times in my life until now. I hate how people around me either don't see anything wrong with me and say I'm faking it, and others think I'm completely sick in the mind and I need to be constantly medicated. I grew up with PTSD, as the first assault was when I was only 11 years old. For me everything that's about it, it's my normal life, day to day.
So, what is empathy? It's the ability to understand another person's thoughts and feelings in a situation from their point of view, rather than your own. It differs from sympathy, where one is moved by the thoughts and feelings of another but maintains an emotional distance
They died for the greed of rich men who lied to them. Who still lie to them. But they wrap themselves in a blanked of virtue. "We called the dead heroes, and blamed everybody but ourselves."
I would like this assembly of gold star parents to have a way to be honored and to finally honor their fallen heroes in the memorial that I proposed along the nature preserve in Sugar Grove, Illinois
*Amazing❤️🙌Being able to provide all my needs without the help of the Government is really a dream come through and I’m getting $50,000 returns from my 10k investment, Glory to the everlasting God almighty.*
After I got up to $300k trading with Mary Margaret Schimweg i bought a new House and I'm now able to send my kids to a better school in the states thanks to her. When someone is straight forward with what he or she is doing people will always speak up for them.
must be really horrible experiences to have such severe emotional damage that one cannot function in society, as someone who served their country. just horrible, heartbreaking
The problem is missed, often because it is ignored by everyone that doesn't see it or doesn't want to, since it is invisible to most. Even when it is known by the doctors and yourself in most places, there is no help available. Been there. Glad that at least veterans started getting help, Pro athletes as well now that NFL couldn't ignore it any longer. Almost everyone else are just SOL.
Please Leave the world war l vets alone in THEIR peace. 🚫🤕🇺🇲 P.T.S.D----F.Q.A.D------ COVID-19. all have the exact same SYMPTOMS & ADVERSE EFFECTS ??? HOW MANY MORE EXCUSES WILL WE HEAR THAT MAKE NO SENSE 😢 STOP BULLSHITING THE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT DESERVE THIS 🤔 ❤
Why these Air force airmen getting killed?? I was an airmen an i never imagined getting killed in combat soo sorry for everybody who lost their life over there
How much more suffering and gold star families are going to be created in the future, as US is slipping deeper and deeper towards fascism? And only to end up on the wrong side of history? Pretty unbearable thought.
As an African-American retired Air Force Sergeant I am truly ashamed of the way 60 minutes conducted this documentary. Tears swelled in my eyes for those highlighted that lost their lives while serving. But, not one black solider, airman, sailor, or marine was highlighted. There are so many black gold star mothers and fathers in America. It’s painful to see how our people are overlooked when in comes to media and magazine coverage of those that gave their lives for our country. Tears fall for those shown here. BUT WHAT ABOUT MINORITY GOLD STAR PARENTS/
Agree 1000%. I don't recall seeing any black gold star families at the hotel, but I'll have to go back and check. The fact that Black American households are worth one-seventh of median white households shows that this country has a lot of work to do to end racial injustice.
Maybe they didn’t show up to the event in San Francisco. Perhaps there needs to be better outreach by the Gold Star families. But I get what you’re saying. 60 minutes wouldn’t have had to look far to find an African American or Latino family grieving their son or daughter’s loss.
I noticed , right away! i guess, Black lives still don't matter. I lost respect for 60 minutes a while ago. But this really sealed the deal. It's a damn shame!
So... what? This is an old show. Did you expect something created five years ago would be up-to-date? You might as well watch a sitcom from the '60s and complain that fashions have changed by now. If you want a report from yesterday, watch a report from yesterday.
im 24 and have never been that patriotic but after seeing so many people try to destroy America i realized i don't want to be like that and i am lucky to live here. Thank you to anyone who served and RIP to all those who lost their lives.
That's great you see. Please pay attention though and see the freedoms we have and how it's being destroyed from the inside out. We may not like what people say but the freedom to say it was fought for. Yes bad people/criminals use guns to harm ppl but the millions of gun owners like my family who follow the laws and just want to protect our family are exercising our right that was fought for. 🇺🇸 so on and so on
@@firstlast8258 you should absolutely care about your freedoms. The fact that you're able to joke and laugh about it tells me you live in a country where you have the right to freedom of expression. You are connected to the internet and can say what you please. Lucky you. Many around the world don't even have something so simple. And yes... using the internet as you please is a freedom. You're probably some gen Z or millennial who has first world problems and thinks life is sooooo unfair wahhhhhhhh
It sounds like this “blast syndrome” is also degenerative, like CTE. Brian’s percussive injury eventually caused him to become paranoid and develop full-blown delusions.
The VA hospitals as bad you might think are not as bad as any usual hospital.. I have been around hospitals and sick people most of my life and from my experience the VA is definitely better than any other hospital except maybe children's hospital in Oakland..
12:27 Let’s make all these people who are seeking redemption of some sort or validation of severe pain, or _____. To have the city of Aurora, Illinois to leave their good deed that they feel they have the strength to do to honor the fallen; and the township of Sugar Grove, Illinois to find some way of being filled up again themselves before leaving to go back home..
“It is only those who have never fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, for desolation” William T Sherman
Before comments are turned off. Si let me get this straight, the army spends nearly one trillion dollars, but cannot inventory when someone gets exposure to blasts..come on. It is so easy to imventory such incidences for observation, so that when those changes start to occur, the necessary measures can be taken. And, tou can even work with the family members to monitor the heroes after they get back. That is just basic commonsense for someone who is interested in the welfare of their people
I don't think any protective gear can shield your brain or body from that type of brain damage. It's common sense getting beat in the head or hit repeated times does do damage. Its very sad because people will walk around absolutely deemed normal not even knowing their brain has shifted or is currently shifting due to this nerve damage.
imagine if Bush would not have retaliated (i know this is hard for americans to do). but think about the money that could have been used otherwise, think of all the soldiers not being lost, their families not having to deal with grieve, the Irakis not having lost so many civilians, Europe not having to deal with so many refugees, so many have nots, so much money that could have been used for good! you call them heroes, i call them canon fodder!
When will we stop making more people just like them it seems like to me that it will never stop because it's not the way we are designed if something way more intelligent than us had a plane then thay got it right the very first time around
He was being tracked by cell phones. This was realistic paranoia. What about all the brain-injured civilians in war zones and battered spouses? We have no real treatments.
I hated my dad. He fought next to high explosives throughout his career in the Army in the Pacific during WWII. I was born in 1944 when he was attacking Angaur near Palau and experiencing explosives who in a moment of time many years later he explained the explosives he experienced and later said my mother saved his life from "Shell Shock". I never got to meet him before the war injuries. I forgive myself now for my fear of his anger, his addictions, and later his decline. He was and is a hero. He was drafted and trained for two years to do the invasions heading towards Japan. My two daughters got to know him in the nursing home when he had "mellowed" out according to them. We didn't know. My mother refused to leave him in spite of his rage. He did survive. I too survived and learned of his lifelong suffering. I'm thankful that my enlistment at the age of 17 was not a repeat. Thanks to the medical profession that is now investigating the disaster of super blasts. I experienced them but not like many other vets experienced. We all need healing, kindness and forgiveness.
Speak for yourself
You sir have empathy. Glad to hear the blasts you suffered weren’t as devastatingly debilitating.
@@firstlast8258 He is speaking for himself. I don't agree with his opinion which to my way of thinking is little more than a form of apologism on behalf of corrupt authority. And so it goes. Humanity is really little more than a suicide cult run by pathological liars with very few of us men and women of authenticity and honor. The powers that be have been deliberately covering up the issue of brain injuries since time and memorial, all the way back to the days when Roman rulers deliberately spiked the wine of their day with lead acetate. It's all about social control with all of us afflicted with brain injuries to be exploited as scapegoats, all the way unto death. blah blah blah. humanity is too corrupt and wiollfully stupid, this to the point where there are no adult conversations about any matter of importance in any forum. most especially this one.
During my son's two deployments I was nearly catatonic with fear. I'm forever grateful he returned mostly unscathed. I have immense empathy for these parents.
When my son was considering enlisting, my anxiety and stress immediately started, I even called his enlistment office and pleaded that he was my only child. Luckily, he went to trade school and graduated with a Machinist certification. Though for the life of me I cannot even begin to imagine your fear even if I tried. ❤🩹❤🩹
Any parent who loses a child, never really recovers. Giving and receiving support is more important than people realize.
Parents and childrens scammed by the military industrial complex. Sending them to foreign lands to fight other peoples wars.
I've seen people recover. It is not easy and does any of us really recover as we enter old age? Everyone dies one way or another. It is not pretty and can happen at any age. Most of the people that were part of my life are dead. By 70 most of the important people in our lives are in the cemetery. I know that my parents would have recovered with no major trauma if I had died. My grandparents would have been heart broken but my parents at times literally did things that would have put them in prison today. They were clueless about children and felt that every normal or even healthy thing a child or teen does against their wishes should be met with violence or a threat to your life.
This is painful therapy.
To all those who contributed to this 60min show, thank you for your recognition.
It wasn't painfulvfrom me at all I was put under anesthetic
“A life is lost but love does not end.”
I’m rated 100% disabled for PTSD through the VA. The #1 thing that helped after a decade long battle was becoming 100% sober. I didn’t realize that my PTSD was exacerbated by chronic cannabis use along with alcohol abuse, clonopine use and nicotine withdrawals.
God bless you. I pray you will continue to do better. You deserve - DESERVE - a normal, peaceful life: you risked your life to give me a normal, peaceful life. There is no amount of tax money that can be begrudged our soldiers to help them with the dreadful consequences of war. My father was a World War II veteran. He was 'only' in the Coast Guard and 'only' a machinist's mate on an escort ship in the South Pacific. He never talked about his war experience. My mother said that after the War, they had to get separate beds because in his nightmares he would kick her out of bed. When he was in his nineties, he was still having the nightmares. Only once did he tell me why he had the nightmares: the sheer terror of being on a ship that was being torpedoed or strafed by a plane or having bombs dropping around the ship and the ship rocking violently and nearly capsizing, while you felt like a complete sitting duck, unable to do anything, go anywhere, escape in any way. As far as I know, my father never manned a gun, never 'fought' in a battle, and yet he was still traumatized by his war experiences in his nightmares in his 90s. If his experiences did that to him, I can't imagine how traumatized men must be who were engaged in 'real' combat. It is beyond time that we took the mental and psychological consequences of war with the utmost seriousness and urgency.
I would like to give my two cents and just say that at times when cannabis was legally available to me, it actually helped reduce my symptoms and made me able to function. After being able to work through my trauma I stopped using it because I had always just wanted to be able to be totally sober and just ok again. I also recognize that different people might have different reactions to it or might be predisposed to have a bad reaction. I just want to give my experience that when I was in the thick of it, for me personally, it was a life saver and also easy to disuse when I had overcome the biggest hurdles associated with trauma and I could return to being functional and sober. I hope that one day more research is done into recognizing who should and shouldn't consider using a medication possibly derived from cannabis under a medical setting, in cases where it might alleviate the symptoms of trauma in individuals.
I'm 70% PTSD rated and Cannibas is my godsend...🤷♂️
God bless you. I hope that you never EVER give up.
❤❤❤❤❤ I feel for you
Wow. Brian Mancini was an extraordinary human being. What a loss. What a tragic, terrible loss. God rest his soul.
God bless these parents whom have spoken openly and honestly about their children. They are gone but not forgotten. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
thanks to all the families, and service men and women, i gave sgt gilmore his last meal after a prayer, a jewish chaplain gave me 2 meals i gave him one, 45 min later he died, by an ied, that was the first day of hell, i spent a whole month in sadr city getting shot at , mortared at extremely close range, so close my buddies got concussions from the blasts, we got rocketed, shot at, for a month straight.. this was april 2008 i spent my 21st birthday there, i still live with everything today, constant recurring memories that dont leave..... dont give up your not alone....x files
These vets are true heroes do not allow them to be forgotten
Dead heroes that died for nothing
There is no honor in fighting wars of aggression for world banks and big oil. Wake up. War is a racket.
@@ivreiceman20257 how they are a hero when the whole thing was a fn lie it was an unjust and a war of lies bush and his whole administration intentionally deceived the American ppl to go to war.
@@ivreiceman20257what was the purpose of saying that? Did it work? What did It achieve?
@@ivreiceman20257 They died to create the NWO.
God Bless all the Gold Star families. Their children will never be forgotten. We are here because of their efforts. Thankyou.
Speak for yourself
This is very hard to watch.❤ Why can't we all live in peace?❤Thank you for your Service.❤❤
America is a violent country. We average a war every 20 years. We spend billions of dollars annually on military and weapons. We imprison more people than any other country. We hand out guns like candy on Halloween.
Serving the elite
"Gold Star Parents"...
A touching tribute to your beautiful children...
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One major differences with this yearly ‘gathering/ bonding same feelings of loss- an immediate bond bc same pain. Thank Blue n Gold ladies group for setting this most sensitive method of expression, empathy, and unity .
Much respect to all these soldiers, the living and the fallen..hats off
Please pass the Major Richard Star Act, our Dad had brain injury and was medical retired at 19 years, he fell 1 year short of retirement and has to pay dollar for dollar all of his VA benefits from his retirement. Please stop this madness we need your support.
This is really hard to watch, but also really important to understand that we most not judge others and we should listen. Thank you for your sacrifice and service for our country. God bless
Parents and childrens scammed by the military industrial complex. Sending them to foreign lands to fight other peoples wars.
Serving the elite
My heart is breaking with these veterans stories and their suffering and sacrifices 💔💔💔
Thank you to all the veterans for your service to keep myself and my children and grandchildren free!❤️💙🙏
Muh Freedumbs 🤪
Being a leader and having good men die under your command. It is one of the heaviest burdens one can bear with.
In memoriam of LCpl Kevin Scott Smith, USMC. KIA 21 March 2005.
Rest in piece
Brian was a very brave soldier 🪖
Fine line between bravery and stupidity
@@firstlast8258….and none of us care about that. Death and grief are real for these families. Try a little humanity and humility.
@@tundrawomansays694 you care enough to reply
The hardest lesson is not overcoming your fears it is practicing forgiveness and acceptance.
Thank you to each vet for fighting for democracy in this world. Love you all.
It's so sad. I can't imagine. To everyone else they are heroes but for the parent it's your baby and a hero
😢so so sorry 😔🙏 for all the loss
I didn't know about prolonged exposure therapy but I've used the same kind of technique (realizing on my own that I needed to try to rehash and expose myself to the memories so that they would have less of an unbidden effect on me) for the same kinds of symptoms after seeing a kid die in his mother's arms when I was a child, only beginning to use the technique almost a decade after the fact, and it's helped a lot. One of the things that can also happen is that you can't remember what the traumatic event was, and then you're just lost in that state without a way to get better until you can remember. I didn't remember for about seven years.
Well done!
Most valuable work, doctors, 60 minutes, veterans, educators THANK-YOU
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Praying for all of you. My respect to the brave men and women who gave their lives. They are heros.
Im in tears. 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for the video
You never get over the loss of a child, but you do learn to move forward and accept a new normal.
Thanks 🙏 for letting us share!
One of the best 60 Minutes segments i have ever seen.
Thank you to those Veterans 🫡🇺🇸The Marine Corps band was playing the U.S. Army song’ And The Army Goes Marching Along - that’s was awesome 👏
"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children"- Ghandi.
If you are praying for peace then prepare for war
Thanks, y'all! Hugs and peace!❤
I got PTSD from being assaulted by "men" 6 times in my life until now.
I hate how people around me either don't see anything wrong with me and say I'm faking it, and others think I'm completely sick in the mind and I need to be constantly medicated. I grew up with PTSD, as the first assault was when I was only 11 years old. For me everything that's about it, it's my normal life, day to day.
So, what is empathy? It's the ability to understand another person's thoughts and feelings in a situation from their point of view, rather than your own. It differs from sympathy, where one is moved by the thoughts and feelings of another but maintains an emotional distance
So glad i got out in 2004. The stupidity of these wars is astronomical.
Unfortunately what our military does is good for dollar business. Anybody who has dollars in their account should feel sorry.
Shutin Alley. 💯and we’re still getting lied to everyday. We instigate all wars. It is reprehensible.
Stupid is as stupid does
God bless you guys thank you for your service. You inspire me to live a better life style
They died for the greed of rich men who lied to them. Who still lie to them. But they wrap themselves in a blanked of virtue.
"We called the dead heroes, and blamed everybody but ourselves."
A sucker is born every minute
I would like this assembly of gold star parents to have a way to be honored and to finally honor their fallen heroes in the memorial that I proposed along the nature preserve in Sugar Grove, Illinois
The brain injury discovery is very important, I hope that technology evolves to help those who were injured.
Hope is not a plan
If everyone would serve, just think how more money could be donated to help my sisters and brothers.
GOD BLESS THIS SOLDIER 🙏
God blessed them indeed.
*Amazing❤️🙌Being able to provide all my needs without the help of the Government is really a dream come through and I’m getting $50,000 returns from my 10k investment, Glory to the everlasting God almighty.*
After I got up to $300k trading with Mary Margaret Schimweg i bought a new House and I'm now able to send my kids to a better school in the states thanks to her. When someone is straight forward with what he or she is doing people will always speak up for them.
@Jame Williams she will guide you👇👇
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🙏🏻 Oh God, how utterly tragic.
must be really horrible experiences to have such severe emotional damage that one cannot function in society, as someone who served their country. just horrible, heartbreaking
The problem is missed, often because it is ignored by everyone that doesn't see it or doesn't want to, since it is invisible to most. Even when it is known by the doctors and yourself in most places, there is no help available. Been there. Glad that at least veterans started getting help, Pro athletes as well now that NFL couldn't ignore it any longer. Almost everyone else are just SOL.
Please Leave the world war l vets alone in THEIR peace. 🚫🤕🇺🇲
P.T.S.D----F.Q.A.D------ COVID-19. all have the exact same SYMPTOMS & ADVERSE EFFECTS ??? HOW MANY MORE EXCUSES WILL WE HEAR THAT MAKE NO SENSE 😢 STOP BULLSHITING THE PEOPLE WHO DO NOT DESERVE THIS 🤔 ❤
National felon league
God bless our veterans ❤
POWERFUL ❤
In Vietnam unless a man is a career in military he came home maybe with a lot of baggage but now they keep sending them back to danger
We are all Gold Star Families. At least one person made the ultimate sacrifice from every branch of my family starting with WWI.
Why these Air force airmen getting killed?? I was an airmen an i never imagined getting killed in combat soo sorry for everybody who lost their life over there
Care about your well being lol wtf. How many vets are homeless drug addicts with violent PTSD??? #SAVINGFACE
I Love 60 minutes!!! ❤❤❤
You don't have to be a vet to have PTSD or CPTSD.
Hope for my brothers and sisters
Hope is not a plan
Well done America, well done.
Gawd bless Murica 🤓🖕
Powerful reflection about staying for dinner.
How much more suffering and gold star families are going to be created in the future, as US is slipping deeper and deeper towards fascism? And only to end up on the wrong side of history? Pretty unbearable thought.
The home of the brave ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
As an African-American retired Air Force Sergeant I am truly ashamed of the way 60 minutes conducted this documentary. Tears swelled in my eyes for those highlighted that lost their lives while serving. But, not one black solider, airman, sailor, or marine was highlighted. There are so many black gold star mothers and fathers in America. It’s painful to see how our people are overlooked when in comes to media and magazine coverage of those that gave their lives for our country. Tears fall for those shown here. BUT WHAT ABOUT MINORITY GOLD STAR PARENTS/
Agree 1000%. I don't recall seeing any black gold star families at the hotel, but I'll have to go back and check. The fact that Black American households are worth one-seventh of median white households shows that this country has a lot of work to do to end racial injustice.
You are ridiculous. Please take your gas lighting elsewhere.
In the military everyone is treated like they are black
Maybe they didn’t show up to the event in San Francisco. Perhaps there needs to be better outreach by the Gold Star families.
But I get what you’re saying. 60 minutes wouldn’t have had to look far to find an African American or Latino family grieving their son or daughter’s loss.
I noticed , right away! i guess, Black lives still don't matter. I lost respect for 60 minutes a while ago. But this really sealed the deal. It's a damn shame!
This originally aired 5 years ago. Like come on. As neat as the scientific discoveries are, they have definitely learned more by now
So... what? This is an old show. Did you expect something created five years ago would be up-to-date? You might as well watch a sitcom from the '60s and complain that fashions have changed by now. If you want a report from yesterday, watch a report from yesterday.
im 24 and have never been that patriotic but after seeing so many people try to destroy America i realized i don't want to be like that and i am lucky to live here. Thank you to anyone who served and RIP to all those who lost their lives.
That's great you see. Please pay attention though and see the freedoms we have and how it's being destroyed from the inside out. We may not like what people say but the freedom to say it was fought for. Yes bad people/criminals use guns to harm ppl but the millions of gun owners like my family who follow the laws and just want to protect our family are exercising our right that was fought for. 🇺🇸 so on and so on
Serving the elite
@@CrustyUgg muh freedumbs 🤪
@@firstlast8258 you should absolutely care about your freedoms. The fact that you're able to joke and laugh about it tells me you live in a country where you have the right to freedom of expression. You are connected to the internet and can say what you please. Lucky you. Many around the world don't even have something so simple. And yes... using the internet as you please is a freedom. You're probably some gen Z or millennial who has first world problems and thinks life is sooooo unfair wahhhhhhhh
Hmmm 🤔🤔 100percent true. Me massive depression anxiety PTSD Bless me just to move on
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Heroes
Disposable
It sounds like this “blast syndrome” is also degenerative, like CTE. Brian’s percussive injury eventually caused him to become paranoid and develop full-blown delusions.
So sad😢
I wonder if treatments in a decompression chamber, right after a blast, would be of any value.
Or maybe vote for people who don’t want to send people to wars we shouldn’t be involved in?
He was crying out for help before he committed suicide 💜
The VA hospitals as bad you might think are not as bad as any usual hospital.. I have been around hospitals and sick people most of my life and from my experience the VA is definitely better than any other hospital except maybe children's hospital in Oakland..
Gawd bless Murica 🤓🖕
12:27 Let’s make all these people who are seeking redemption of some sort or validation of severe pain, or _____. To have the city of Aurora, Illinois to leave their good deed that they feel they have the strength to do to honor the fallen; and the township of Sugar Grove, Illinois to find some way of being filled up again themselves before leaving to go back home..
Lost in the name of oil and money for the select few.
Two types of people involved in war. Those who get rich and those who get dead.
War for BANKSTERS not freedom.
good thing we have so many loving muslims who contribute so immensely to our great troops to our freedom
*_Sometimes even our deepest condolences must be silent._*
_RET US ARMY CPL KIMBERLY D HOWARD-RITTER_
Speak for yourself
My SGB were injected thru my static nerves on spine and thru my viens in my neck for the hand.
These soldiers love their country, but their country doesn't love them back ..
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Can we avoid wars?
NO
Can we? Yes. Will we? No.
“It is only those who have never fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, for desolation” William T Sherman
Yes.
Before comments are turned off. Si let me get this straight, the army spends nearly one trillion dollars, but cannot inventory when someone gets exposure to blasts..come on. It is so easy to imventory such incidences for observation, so that when those changes start to occur, the necessary measures can be taken. And, tou can even work with the family members to monitor the heroes after they get back. That is just basic commonsense for someone who is interested in the welfare of their people
Cte should eliminate all bacterial infections with antibiotics prescription for greater than 30 days and followed up yearly..
My dad's PTSD became my PTSD.
how you all doing?
Reasons I never wanted to join the military.
How about the family that they destroyed?
5:41 Professor Xavior working for the mitary now?
I don't think any protective gear can shield your brain or body from that type of brain damage. It's common sense getting beat in the head or hit repeated times does do damage. Its very sad because people will walk around absolutely deemed normal not even knowing their brain has shifted or is currently shifting due to this nerve damage.
Anyone thinking of joining any military should read 'Johnny Get Your Gun'.
A sucker is born every minute
They did bad things to civilians and "enjoyed it." War makes us horrible.
They certainly died for something but it wasn't they thought it was.
Greed
They don’t care.
I am surprised the VA doesn't employ EMDR, evidence-based treatment for trauma.....
We were lied to about us getting attacked.
Lobotomy is a common injury also. From the front or from the top of the head.
How many were killed by their own? 😳😳
imagine if Bush would not have retaliated (i know this is hard for americans to do). but think about the money that could have been used otherwise, think of all the soldiers not being lost, their families not having to deal with grieve, the Irakis not having lost so many civilians, Europe not having to deal with so many refugees, so many have nots, so much money that could have been used for good! you call them heroes, i call them canon fodder!
Alzheimer's MS ALS anthrax malaria syphilis and bacterial diseases of the brain are not treated adequately or at all
When will we stop making more people just like them it seems like to me that it will never stop because it's not the way we are designed if something way more intelligent than us had a plane then thay got it right the very first time around
He was being tracked by cell phones. This was realistic paranoia. What about all the brain-injured civilians in war zones and battered spouses? We have no real treatments.