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Description
Mr. Vaillancourt reflects on his attitudes when returning home and getting back into civilian life.
Transcription
You have to re-incorporate yourself with family life which is something you never had to worry about for the past “x” number of months so... You’re not just working for yourself and taking care of your clothes in your kit and stuff. You have to now share your life with your kids and your wife. Coming out of Haiti, being as bitter as I was, was a very tough time for my wife because, you know she, for a while I never asked her really but I should ask her if she thought I was turning into a racist or something. It was just I was so bitter with the place that the adjustment took time. And then over the years, the memories caused more problems like anxiety and so on so forth. So getting that analysed and wondering what was going on and finding out that, witnessing things and seeing things has an impact on a mind and on a person.Interviewer: And did you feel the military itself was there to support you? Amazingly yes. Amazingly, I mean they were great. No time ever was I ever without help in any way, anywhere. So yeah they were great. It was tougher, tougher adjusting to civilian life without the military safety net than anything else.