To those that are stuffing it in the closet, and going on. Eventually the closet will get to full, or the contents will expand, and the door will fly open and it will all come out at once.
You have to find time to clean out the closet, handle the emotions while you can deal with them safely. Those great women and children in your life, will one day not be able to calm you. The emotions will get to be to much.
Don't give up. Find someone to talk with. Open up too. If you can't do it, with the
professionals, then find someone that has been there, to release or defuse the emotions.
Post war, even post 9-11, people have PTSD. We all were hit hard that day. The world took on a different look to most people.(I had already been overseas, and knew how evil the world could be. But to see the rest of our nation realizing it, was the sad part.)
Try looking for returning Veterans groups, War by itself is rough to recover from. Through out every war, the veterans have always been trying to recover. Unfortunately, we still don't have the solution, but alot of people have found comfort in their comrades. Vietnam was a tough time for the military. Alot of them, sought out each other, out of necessity. (the nation didn't want to acknowlege the soldiers that were kept from winning the war.)
It turned out to be the best therapy. Not walking into a room, and forcing each other to open up. But being there to hear the problems, that they are having in life, after war. It does get into the closet, but it doesn't rip the door open.
Unfortunately, suicide does increase after war. The closet is destroyed, and the person finds peace, but it is the extreme cost. Don't give up, don't wait for this to happen. The ones you love, would be devestated. They love you, they want to help you, but can't. They might follow your path, and I am sure you don't want that.
Please find a way. Because you loved ones, want you home. They want you back, even though your mentally wounded by just surviving war, you are not dead. But they could be hurt by your emotional time bomb.
You have several crates of grenades in that closet. If they go off, they will hurt you, and everyone you love. We need to disarm them, for your safety, and those around you.
As someone else has said, The muslims aren't to blame. Its the religion that tells people there is no second guessing the human preist, in his interpretation of Islams word. Blind faith is the cause. Remember the good people you know. They are not terrorists. We cannot condemn all of the people for the acts of a few.
I will admit. If I met Bin Laden on the street, knew it was him, I would kill him the first chance I got. But the same is not true for any other Muslim. Remember who the enemy is. 9-11 they killed the generalization of America. Do we want to kill the
generalization of the Muslim?
Please,everyone returning, find a group. You might not think you need it. And you may not, but you might be able to help the desperate fellow to keep going. And I bet you might even find, that closet you have. And disarm those grenades you didn't know you had.
I wasn't in war, I was lucky to serve in peace time.(if you call terrorist bombing Europe, peacetime.) But I had that closet. I still find [wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth][wash my mouth] coming out. I know the Vietnam veterans still have stuff in their closet, probably even the WWII Vets. We just need to deal with it, before it gets to dangerous.