Impacts of War

When I first came home from overseas, after I bought my house, I remember shingling the roof and I’d pass out and fall off and I’d wind up on the ground. I never hurt myself for some funny reason. I guess maybe cause I was out, and there was a crick right there beside the house, I’d go down and shove my head in the crick and I’d go back. But to walk into town I could only walk about 600 or 700 yards and I’d have to sit down and have a rest and yet they told me there was nothing wrong with me. And that’s the way I was for about five years and then they referred me to the welfare, which hurt, I wouldn’t even come into town then. I couldn’t look anybody in the face. And it went from bad to worse. My nerves went, well they were gone when I came home from overseas, come home from Hong Kong. They put me on Valium, I was on 10mg three times a day and I finally got it cut down to 5mg three times a day and if I miss one I am just a bowl of jelly.