re: #142 Belafon

We heard about a solder returning from Iraq or Afghanistan who had developed epilepsy with no prior family history, and they (I don’t remember who they are) determined it was PTSD. We don’t have a history of it in my family either, and my dad developed it while he was in Vietnam. When they started becoming less regular, we would have to start watching him after some kind of stressful event, which was usually when his mother would visit.

I was not in combat. I was in the Naval task forces assigned to the Bosnia and Beirut operations, and was stationed in Spain working exceptionally long hours with no days off for six months during the Persian Gulf War, but those don’t really qualify as combat.