Posted on Aug 4, 2021
Army unveils memorial for Black soldier lynched at Georgia military base 80 years ago
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Ft. Benning, GA
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I can’t imagine the hate they had to have held in their hearts to have done this.
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PO1 Sam Deel
MAJ Ken Landgren - I do like your Mantra. At my core, that is who I am. We all have to face that Darkness at some time in our lives. How we endure with the Light determines our will power. How we share what we gained from that experience, defines our heart and soul. I learned this from the Greatest Teacher the world has ever known. The Man that is the Light; Jesus Christ. My heart, my compassion, my empathy, my Love is derived from He who Saved my soul. To Him goes all the credit.
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PO1 Sam Deel
MAJ Ken Landgren - Nothing the average Constitutionalist ain't facing. I do have the event earmarks for it, but I simply refuse to bow to PTSD. And I sure as heck ain't taking any mental health meds. Been down that path and I can bet the farm that those meds do far more harm than good. I am in 24/7 agonizing physical pain from my Service Connected Injury.
You want PTSD, I am the poster boy for it. My injury came as a result of a shoulder/lat press workout machine breaking the cable with the max weight on it. Thanks to Newton, I went for a 12 foot flight across a hard tile floor. That left me with damaged nerves across my entire body, loss of feeling, coordination, and tensed across my neck, shoulders and middle back. My Navy career was quickly put into a tail-spin. Navy screw-ups, quack Navy Band-aid Doc and Regs violations brought it down in flames. Even in my darkest times, with PTSD trying to force its way in, I simply refused to submit. What worked for me is that I armed myself with knowledge from the very beginning. That was back in December 2010, months after the incident. So when a panic attack tried to set it on me, I recognized it before it could take hold. And try it did. I stopped it dead in its tracks by sheer will power.
I was still suffering with the 24/7 physical ailments and pain. I kept up the VA drug regimen, in hopes that they would see that meds weren't cutting it, giving the go ahead for far more intensive diagnostics. Then on May 24th, 2013, the latest whizbang test rat drug the Grubermint sought fit to experiment on Veterans, I died. 6 days later I dropped in the VA Lobby from a bad drug interaction. Ya know, one of those side-effects that they warn about in those Pharma commercials. I had to be revived, twice, both respiration and heart beat had come to a stop. Took 14 hours to recover in the ER of a teaching horspital, who the VA told them I was a drug addict off the street seeking drugs. Even then, it was weeks before I was fully back to Life. It was at that moment that I swore off all mental health and pain meds. If it wasn't naproxen, ibuprofen, or aspirin, I ain't taking it. I quickly devised a method to intercept the constant, stabbing/burning/stinging/numbing pain with my sub-conscious. Mind you, not to tell my conscious brain that there is no pain, but that the pain is just not that intense. That takes a lot of will power to do so.
I used pure logic to accomplish this. Our bodies are organic machines, with the brain being the organic computer that controls it. Much like with a piggyback controller used by automotive enthusiasts, the sensory inputs of the engine (body) are intercepted, then altered, before being delivered to the ECM (Engine Control Module). In effect, I am lying to myself to get a desired outcome. Almost a decade later, the VA would introduce this to me as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The VA is rather lethargic on the uptake. If President Trump had not mandated VA Reforms, who knows where many of us would be.
Probably more than you bargained for. As I stated in my prior reply, how we share out Life experiences defines the character of a person. My hopes is that this might help a fellow Vet, suffering chronic issues, to shed off over-prescribed medications and to not seek out illicit drugs for fleeting relief. With limitations, I have my Life back. No longer is the prospect of living with this chronic pain a daymare.
You want PTSD, I am the poster boy for it. My injury came as a result of a shoulder/lat press workout machine breaking the cable with the max weight on it. Thanks to Newton, I went for a 12 foot flight across a hard tile floor. That left me with damaged nerves across my entire body, loss of feeling, coordination, and tensed across my neck, shoulders and middle back. My Navy career was quickly put into a tail-spin. Navy screw-ups, quack Navy Band-aid Doc and Regs violations brought it down in flames. Even in my darkest times, with PTSD trying to force its way in, I simply refused to submit. What worked for me is that I armed myself with knowledge from the very beginning. That was back in December 2010, months after the incident. So when a panic attack tried to set it on me, I recognized it before it could take hold. And try it did. I stopped it dead in its tracks by sheer will power.
I was still suffering with the 24/7 physical ailments and pain. I kept up the VA drug regimen, in hopes that they would see that meds weren't cutting it, giving the go ahead for far more intensive diagnostics. Then on May 24th, 2013, the latest whizbang test rat drug the Grubermint sought fit to experiment on Veterans, I died. 6 days later I dropped in the VA Lobby from a bad drug interaction. Ya know, one of those side-effects that they warn about in those Pharma commercials. I had to be revived, twice, both respiration and heart beat had come to a stop. Took 14 hours to recover in the ER of a teaching horspital, who the VA told them I was a drug addict off the street seeking drugs. Even then, it was weeks before I was fully back to Life. It was at that moment that I swore off all mental health and pain meds. If it wasn't naproxen, ibuprofen, or aspirin, I ain't taking it. I quickly devised a method to intercept the constant, stabbing/burning/stinging/numbing pain with my sub-conscious. Mind you, not to tell my conscious brain that there is no pain, but that the pain is just not that intense. That takes a lot of will power to do so.
I used pure logic to accomplish this. Our bodies are organic machines, with the brain being the organic computer that controls it. Much like with a piggyback controller used by automotive enthusiasts, the sensory inputs of the engine (body) are intercepted, then altered, before being delivered to the ECM (Engine Control Module). In effect, I am lying to myself to get a desired outcome. Almost a decade later, the VA would introduce this to me as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. The VA is rather lethargic on the uptake. If President Trump had not mandated VA Reforms, who knows where many of us would be.
Probably more than you bargained for. As I stated in my prior reply, how we share out Life experiences defines the character of a person. My hopes is that this might help a fellow Vet, suffering chronic issues, to shed off over-prescribed medications and to not seek out illicit drugs for fleeting relief. With limitations, I have my Life back. No longer is the prospect of living with this chronic pain a daymare.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
Man, I am sorry you went all through this. Do you have depression, racing thoughts, anxiety, insomnia, and guilt? I ask because I have PTSD as well.
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Never heard of this History. That is about as FUBAR as it gets. What the Hell. Instead of a damn plaque, how about re-opening that "investigation" and actually do some investigation to bring 80 years too late Justice to our Brother, Pvt Felix Hall? How about this current Democrat Administration correct the Sins of their Democrat predecessors (FDR Admin), who decided to look the other way? A plaque ain't gonna do it.
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