Sep 10, 2007 08:33AM GMT
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Entertainment - Television
Has anyone seen H.B.O.'s documentary film 'ALIVE DAY MEMORIES'-Home From Iraq. Ten soldiers discuss life after receiving severe injuries while at war Care to share your feelings?
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Answered No
No, I live in a military town, my Husband did two tours to Iraq prior to retiring and I volunteer at our local military hospital assisting our men, women and their families with their recovery. So I don't need to watch a TV show, I'm living it. -
As a retiree and a military person (I started off as a dependent child, my Dad did 22 years before he finally retired, I did 10 years before getting medically retired and I married a military person who is now also retired) giving back and helping others is no problem. I get great joy going and helping other and besides... my Hubby did two tours in Iraq before retiring and just by the grace of God he came home alive and in one piece.
I will catch the show and let you know what I think. -
I found these 10 soldiers and their families heartbreakingly heroic, brave and proud. They are so young...I hope, really hope that they are receiving the BEST medical care, and support.
To think not so long ago many of them would have died from such injuries and if they did manage to survive they were just hidden away in some hospital or nursing home.
The American's with Disabilitirs Act (1990) was too long in coming for so many.
Peace, Love and Compassion! -
Yeah, I can tell you from my own personal experience that there are some great health care providers out there but than there's also some real butt whole of health care providers out there to. I've learnt that when dealing with health care, you HAVE to be involved with your case and fight for your health and service. Thank heaven for the internet because you can find so much information on it concerning everything from symptoms, treatment, cures, side-effects, etc..
I once had a doctor that didn’t want to tell me all the improvements that was possible for me to make, instead he kept trying to tell me about all the limitations, how I was never going to recover completely, not to get my expectations to high and pretty much gloom and doom. I FIRED HIM!!! Today I’m better and more in shape than what I was before my accident.
Yes, thank heaven because of modern medicine and that first hour being very important in the care a person receives is going to have a huge effect on how that person survive or not. The field medics are highly trained now in getting that patient stabled out there at the site as oppose to trying to medivac the patient in. There’s better material; bandages, medications, splints, etc., and treatment can start right out there in the field.
Things are much better than what they were back during Vietnam, but we still have improvements to make. Especially improvement concerning head traumas and being able to read those hidden issues, the issues ...Yeah, I can tell you from my own personal experience that there are some great health care providers out there but than there's also some real butt whole of health care providers out there to. I've learnt that when dealing with health care, you HAVE to be involved with your case and fight for your health and service. Thank heaven for the internet because you can find so much information on it concerning everything from symptoms, treatment, cures, side-effects, etc..
I once had a doctor that didn’t want to tell me all the improvements that was possible for me to make, instead he kept trying to tell me about all the limitations, how I was never going to recover completely, not to get my expectations to high and pretty much gloom and doom. I FIRED HIM!!! Today I’m better and more in shape than what I was before my accident.
Yes, thank heaven because of modern medicine and that first hour being very important in the care a person receives is going to have a huge effect on how that person survive or not. The field medics are highly trained now in getting that patient stabled out there at the site as oppose to trying to medivac the patient in. There’s better material; bandages, medications, splints, etc., and treatment can start right out there in the field.
Things are much better than what they were back during Vietnam, but we still have improvements to make. Especially improvement concerning head traumas and being able to read those hidden issues, the issues that the men and women in uniform aren’t talking about but suffering with. We still have work to do.(less) -
One of my uncles,'W.W.2' Came home with mental health issues and was sent to the V.A. where they kept him for years. My grandmother and the rest of the family would visit him and take him home some weekends and holidays.
He became institutionalized and would worry about getting back. Seems they kept guys like him sedated. During the late 60's they decided to let people like my uncle come home. It was too late for him that place had become home and he could not cope outside
My uncles 4 of them all joined together 3 were still in high school and finished later and went on to college under the G.I. bill. But Edward was in Germany and saw the camps and was never the same.
Here was a guy who was voted in high school as #1 the most likely to succeed. the best looking and the best dressed. He was the football star and everyone loved him.
He died at 51 a wasted life!
Things like this would never happen now and stopped happening years ago.
As you can tell this documentary came very close to my heart and haunts me. -
Oh please DON'T see your Uncle Edwards' life as a waste. Just imagine how many lives he touched prior to dying? I mean of course there was your family and all the family friends, people he went to school with, those he served with, people he came into contact with while in Germany, the nurses and doctors in the facilities he was in and just people he met along the way. Not to mention everyone in this country during that time and even after WWII. His life HAD purpose and so did his death.
If the VA system is better today, it's because of the lessons learnt by people like your Uncle Edward and the improvements made, he had apart in implementing them.
Unfortunately though, even today after WWII and even Vietnam we're made strives where the VA is concern but there are so many more strives that still need to be made. Even now returning men and women are having difficult time in finding the care that they need, love ones are having to fight on behalf of some returning vets because of injuries where the family have to take their medical matters into their own hands. There's still shortages of nurses and doctors, some nurses and doctors lost their love for their jobs and now are just doing it to collect a paycheck or going to work just to socialize but neglecting their patients. Some of the facilities are in much need of being repaired and/or replaced all together.
We've traveled far on the road doing things right by our vets but we still have much more grounds to cove...Oh please DON'T see your Uncle Edwards' life as a waste. Just imagine how many lives he touched prior to dying? I mean of course there was your family and all the family friends, people he went to school with, those he served with, people he came into contact with while in Germany, the nurses and doctors in the facilities he was in and just people he met along the way. Not to mention everyone in this country during that time and even after WWII. His life HAD purpose and so did his death.
If the VA system is better today, it's because of the lessons learnt by people like your Uncle Edward and the improvements made, he had apart in implementing them.
Unfortunately though, even today after WWII and even Vietnam we're made strives where the VA is concern but there are so many more strives that still need to be made. Even now returning men and women are having difficult time in finding the care that they need, love ones are having to fight on behalf of some returning vets because of injuries where the family have to take their medical matters into their own hands. There's still shortages of nurses and doctors, some nurses and doctors lost their love for their jobs and now are just doing it to collect a paycheck or going to work just to socialize but neglecting their patients. Some of the facilities are in much need of being repaired and/or replaced all together.
We've traveled far on the road doing things right by our vets but we still have much more grounds to cover.
Alive Day Memories comes on Thursday, 13 September at 9 p.m. and I'm going to make a point and tune in.
I thank your Uncle Edward for everything he did in life, in the military and even in death.(less)
Answered Yes
Yeah I've seen it, me and my husband are in the Army and we both have a lot of friends that are deployed or have been deployed. It was heartbreaking and inspirational to see everything they had to overcome.