Hi @Faith-and-Hope@utopia@Appleblossom@Sophia1
Anyone else affected by war-trauma
My mother's father returned from France and the Middle East in WW1 with war-related TB and passed it to my mother's older sibling - they both died from it
My mother's mother was a very bitter woman - she did not turn it toward me but I did a lot of investigation into what might have affected my mother - I did this after she died - and I realised what I had heard as a child myself was my mother hearing her father bad-mouthing her father all her life - and I can see this is one reason my mother was so harsh toward my younger sibling and I.
We were born during WW2 and my mother could not cope with it - Dad was in an essential industry and worked 13 hour fortnights so he was away most of the time and so no one knew about my mother's behaviour and we were little kids and had no idea what it was all about - even that it was wrong I guess
I had not thought about it until we started discussing this - war-trauma is past down through generations and I think we all have our stories - they vary and they hurt - but whatever he inherit is our story
I'm sorry your Dad died that way Apple and also Utopia - I remember hearing and reading a lot about the bad press toward the Vietnam vets - and this is so unreasonable - no one wants to go to a war if they are old enough to know better - and even so - no one wanted this war -
I am really unhappy for people who have suffered war-trauma - thinking back to what my grandmother used to say about it in our presence - she had it - my mother had it - and passed it down to us -
And there must be millions of stories and I am glad people have the chance now to talk about this
Dec
