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...turned his attention to business. With his brother-in-law, he started a restaurant chain that made a pile of money. His dedication to the job took a toll on his marriage; he divorced after four years. Yet in those years came the first release from the psychic pain he said often made "it difficult to see." The moment he felt healed was when his son was born and again when his daughter arrived two years later. Yet he did not tell his grown-up children about Thanh Phong until two weeks ago. Now he talks of how healing...
...Senator Max Cleland Democrat of Georgia War takes its toll, and anybody who doesn't understand that hasn't been to war. Part of it is the pain and guilt. It's taken me 30 years or more to deal with the Vietnam War. I felt guilty coming back, and to be looked upon as a war hero was hard. I thought it was my own grenade that I had dropped that blew me up. (Cleland lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam.) And then a year and a half ago, I found out it was the guy getting...
...innocent people get killed?not intentionally, but they do, and young men end up killing young men, and that stays with you for the rest of your life. It's not something you brag about, but it's something you live with. One way to deal with the pain and guilt is you find a place of sanctuary where people won't condemn you. I created such a place because so many veterans came back from Vietnam who had these kinds of problems. I created the Vet Center program. There were 15 centers in 1980; now there are about...
...make his personal anguish public any more than other Americans want to dredge up the nation's agony again. But because a fellow SEAL who lived through the same nightmare that night has come forward with an even more damning chain of events than Kerrey admits to, his private pain is reopening hard questions about war, memory and guilt. The tangled tale of ambiguous acts, conflicting recollections and tragic carnage embodies the madness that was the Vietnam War. So here we are, faced with another judgment to make in the endless reckoning of damages inflicted by that disastrous conflict...
...week, "I think I almost got some of my men killed that night." Instead, in a 90-sec. fire fight, seven V.C. were gunned down--but not before a grenade landed on Kerrey's foot, shattering his leg and wounding his groin, chest and face. Declining morphine for the pain, Kerrey refused to relinquish his command until he had got his men to safety...