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In reply to the discussion: For guys, Have you ever cut your lip shaving? [View all]pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I would have died in Vietnam if it hadn't been for a nurse at the evac hosp who came back to check on me and discovered I'd stopped breathing--and got them to do an emergency tracheostomy on the spot. Even though the ORs were full with the casualties I'd sent back and they had to do it in the waiting room.
But that notion of strength about us VN vets is one I've encountered often coming from those who weren't there. The truth is that all human beings are strong and resilient and those who, for whatever reason, didn't have to face our test would have performed just the way we did if that had been their lot.
As would you, if you had to do it. You would be strong and you'd do what you have to do to survive. And from what little I know of you here, you'd do it with grace.