Center helps vets cope with stress
By JOHN MILLS
Of Km ErnaraM
"A victim of a plane crash or people
who've gone through fires have the
same kind of post-traumatic stress It's
the same as shell-shock except it’s
delayed 15 years," says Vietnam veter
an Kim Maynard
"Delayed stress is a coping strategy
that worked for the highly unreliable
situation in Vietnam It was so firmly
imprinted that vets still react to the
world as if the enemy was crawling in
the bushes trying to throw a grenade at
them," says Cliff Kaylor, who co-directs
the Veterans' Center with Maynard and
Vietnam veteran Jim Leavitt
"Vietnam was set up as a kid's war It
was designed to keep 19-year-olds
from breaking down on the battlefield,"
Maynard says "In other wars you were
in for the duration so people broke
down with battle-fatigue and were sent
to the rear In Vietnam you had a one
year tour When you got into high stress
situations you told yourself 'I've only
got five months to go so I'm not going to
deal with this now,' " he says
"After a few months you learned to
cut down on certain stresses You
learned not to get to know people
because the closer you got the more
stress you had when they were blown
away," Maynard says
"When somebody new came in you
didn’t want to know who they were,
where they were from or anything about
them You became a survivor, an in
dividual,” he says
"When you came back and were
plunked down here, within 24 hours
you were ready to let it out," says
Kaylor "But there was no place for that
release My family told me to put all that
behind me Meanwhile protestors were
calling GIs baby-killers "
"Any normal person would react in
the same way," says Dr Linda Sher
man assistant professor of psychology
at the University and director of the
Community Veterans Employment and
Training Service Center The
combination of a ' catastrophic war and
a lack of welcome'' make vets frustrat
ed. isolated and hostile, she says
"It don’t mean nothing " Ex-marine
Ron Phillips says that's a phrase he
hasn’t been able to lose from Vietnam
"When we were there it was all lies
The South Vietnamese government
was one of the most corrupt in the
world," Phillips says
"You come back to the states and go
through all this bureaucracy, and it
don't mean nothing It has nothing to
do with survival, it's all so some bastard
up top gets rich." Phillips says "Then
we re portrayed as a bunch of radical
crazies "
"When we came back we wanted to
find out what it was all about, why in the
hell we were over there, why our friends
were getting killed " Leavitt says
"Nobody would give us the answers "
"Why did the guy who carried a Bible
get shot )ust as dead as the guy who
whored around7 Why did I survive when
others didn’t7' asks Kaylor
"We have to retreat to our own
answers to why we did it and why it was
— in a society that doesn't help us find
an answer You live through a horror
story — how do you rationalize it. ex
cept that I made it? I must be a lot
stronger than I thought I was ”
"People think that if the veteran
went, then it's his own fault That
doesn't take into account that a
19-year-old at that time wasn't even
conscious of political things," Maynard
says
"I was being a good middle-class
young man I went into the military and
got off on the John Wayne training,"
Leavitt says
"i remember we were landing there in
the morning I looked down and
thought, Oh my God, they're killing
each other down there Then it clicked
how I d been duped," he said
"From then on I had to say 'this is just
a movie ' "
If you are interested, call CVETS at
344-8387
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