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somehiker

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They're only scratching the surface on how devastating PTSD can be. PTSD doesn't only affect the veteran but also affects family, extended families, and subsequent generations. My grandfather was a WW2 hero who fought in some of the heaviest fighting during the war, on the Anzio beachhead in Italy, and in North Africa, and had about a dozen medals awarded, included the purple heart. He was a captain in the 645th Tank Destroyer battalion and was shot multiple times, including in the head.

And he paid the price for it dearly- and so did we. PTSD destroyed him, destroyed his family, and affected his children, which in turn, affected some of the grandchildren.

Small world co-incidence.
Back in 1969, at a popular bar in Toledo, Oh., I came real close to having a guy on leave from Vietnam break a pool cue over my skull.
He didn't know me, but mistook this patch which I had on my favorite well worn canvas jacket along with some other mil patches, for a VC or NVA insignia. Fortunately, the other guys I was with stepped in between us,talked him down, and the guy wound up buying my drinks for the rest of the night. Wish I still had that jacket .
 

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Hal Croves

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What ???
Legal name change from John Griffith Climenson....I can see it I guess, but when ?

somehiker,

I can’t give you a when but I can offer one possible why. My guess is that Barry Griffith Storm was more than a pen name. It may have been a conscious effort to disassociate himself from John Griffith Climenson and more specifically, his grandfather J. Howard Climenson.

Shorter posts help keep me organized.

Read this first:
http://www.westtownpa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/2015-Spring-Westtown-Epilepsy-in-the-1900s.pdf
 

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Hal Croves

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Perhaps shame chased Griffith to Washington where he met Barry’s mother, started over and had children. Barry was two when J. Howard was released, if he served full sentence.

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