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MiHale

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4. What a place to be...awesome to be part of that...

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Mon May 25, 2026, 02:53 PM

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My uncle didn’t die in WW2 but because of it. He was an Army photographer and the things he was forced to witness and document left him a very shaken man. Back the they called it shell shock, we know it as PTSD.
There was no good treatment…he turned to alcohol…drank himself to death. I grieve him in such a different way.

Lost classmates and fellow soldiers in Vietnam.

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My dad died on Memorial Day a few years ago. [View all] bif Monday OP

That is so neat he was there when the peace treaty was signed. Irish_Dem Monday #1

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