Right Amigo........its a government conspiracy......you can find it on the internet.....
Your experience is at significant variance with my own and I've been involved with veteran's organizations here and in the midwest for thirty some years. Some of the bizzare numbers you can find show that more than half of all the folks who served in country have killed themselves since. Good multi-center psychiatric and scientific research does not support these wild claims. These are obviously made up numbers with no science behind them, usually published by someone with a grudge or someone with their hand out. Viet Nam vets are as well or better adjusted than vets of any US war and most have continued their lives as successful family men, business men and members of their communities and in many cases, leaders. Changed....maybe, suicidal....no! I've never personally known of a VN veteran who committed suicide. I recently attended a professional conference on post traumatic care of US casualties and I am aware of new initiatives that have been instituted and happy to see them. To stereotype VN vets as some sort of ne'r-do-well, agent-orange-crazed, suicicidal losers is wrong and I'll never tolerate it when I see it.
Of course, maybe I'm delusional, having once been directly sprayed with AO while on an operation........
