Is that Jonathan in the top strip? With PTSD?
May God have mercy on his soul.
I hope he’s getting effective therapy (and there are many types), even if it’s just to have a fellow combat vet sit and visit, even if they don’t say but two words to each other.
I thought I recognized Jonathan. Happened here last evening and saw the top 4 panels and wasn’t sure. Then I saw the “characters” tags and knew. {sigh} Jonathan is one of my favorite denizens of the empire. Always was fond of him.
Woodman, I have never “seen the elephant” and so do not HAVE PTSD. That does not mean I have not been touched by it. My son. My only son. My son who I spent three agonizing, unbelievably stressful days in court trying to take away from his “runaway Maisie bird” mother. Who unloaded the 1st cargo ship for Desert Shield/Storm and drove one of the first vehicles which wasn’t armored through the berm. Who was in Kuwait City scant hours after the never-to-be-sufficiently-accursed Iraqis withdrew and wittnessed FIRST HAND the unimaginable horrors the press and revisionist historians say didn’t happen. My son has.PTSD. He has it; I do not but I know it all too well. I have had to watch it ravage my son for 3 decades. I don’t get to see him very often because he cannot stand to be in a city more than at most a day or so at a time and I cannot afford the almost 800 mile drive to see him. I didn’t get to see my grandchildren growing up.
So, Woodman, (and you know I’m not hollering at you. We go back a ways after all.) even though I have NOT BTDT, I still get it. You and everyone else see.Jonathan there on the floor. I see my only.son.
Visited the only used book store that I know of. Elizabeth Moon’s Esmay Suiza series starts with “Hunting Party”,
but Esmay doesn’t show up until the end of “Winning Colors”. The series becomes about her with the next book,
“Once a Hero”. The entire series is a pretty good read.
Is that Jonathan in the top strip? With PTSD?
May God have mercy on his soul.
I hope he’s getting effective therapy (and there are many types), even if it’s just to have a fellow combat vet sit and visit, even if they don’t say but two words to each other.
To those who have BTDT, no explanation is necessary.
To those who have not BTDT, no explanation is enough.
I thought I recognized Jonathan. Happened here last evening and saw the top 4 panels and wasn’t sure. Then I saw the “characters” tags and knew. {sigh} Jonathan is one of my favorite denizens of the empire. Always was fond of him.
Woodman, I have never “seen the elephant” and so do not HAVE PTSD. That does not mean I have not been touched by it. My son. My only son. My son who I spent three agonizing, unbelievably stressful days in court trying to take away from his “runaway Maisie bird” mother. Who unloaded the 1st cargo ship for Desert Shield/Storm and drove one of the first vehicles which wasn’t armored through the berm. Who was in Kuwait City scant hours after the never-to-be-sufficiently-accursed Iraqis withdrew and wittnessed FIRST HAND the unimaginable horrors the press and revisionist historians say didn’t happen. My son has.PTSD. He has it; I do not but I know it all too well. I have had to watch it ravage my son for 3 decades. I don’t get to see him very often because he cannot stand to be in a city more than at most a day or so at a time and I cannot afford the almost 800 mile drive to see him. I didn’t get to see my grandchildren growing up.
So, Woodman, (and you know I’m not hollering at you. We go back a ways after all.) even though I have NOT BTDT, I still get it. You and everyone else see.Jonathan there on the floor. I see my only.son.
Visited the only used book store that I know of. Elizabeth Moon’s Esmay Suiza series starts with “Hunting Party”,
but Esmay doesn’t show up until the end of “Winning Colors”. The series becomes about her with the next book,
“Once a Hero”. The entire series is a pretty good read.
https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/serrano-legacy/#:~:text=The%20Serrano%20Legacy%20series%20is,the%20'Familias%20Regnant'%20series.