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“I got hit directly with it It
blew off my hand, blew off
the side of my face and I took
shrapnel wounds to the chest
and the stomach and back,
shoulder and arm "
Within 20 minutes he was
in the air, on his way to an aid
station, but 20 minutes is a
bng time to be severely
wounded and still conscious
He has a vivid recollection of
how he felt nauseous and
afraid while lying there
waiting for a chopper “I was
real surprised I never thought
I would ever get hurt I used
to think things like that Just
couldn't happen to me, even
though there were other peo
pie getting killed and wound
ed all the time That’s why
they draft young people, they
have a belief in their own
immortality ”
Tice confides that he was
mortal, all right He tells of
the years of surgery and
physical rehabilitation he had
to go through At the same
time he considers himself
lucky, in the sense that his
girlfriend was at his side even
during those rough times
They got married in 1970
They're still married and have
three children
"I'm a difference between
Vietnam and World War II,
because I had multiple frag
ment wounds I would have
never lived back then, I barely
lived anyway I was in a
coma, had a heart attack and
I just had a lot of physical pro
blems over a long period of
time,” Tice says
But his problems weren't
limited to his physical condi
tion, because he had emo
tional problems to deal with
as well "I had difficulty with
anger and difficulty sleeping,
as many Vietnam veterans
did."
Not only was he angry at
losing an arm and having to
endure the physical torment,
but he explains that he was
angry at the war and the kind
of reception he got when he
came home
“I can remember lying in a
hospital bed and people runn
ing down the hallways yelling
at us for having gone to war
And there we were, we were
bummed-out having gone to
war. too And they come
through our ward and yell at
us, and shit — that really piss
ed me off, and made me
sad,” recounts Tice "The
Vietnam war was unpopular
in some sectors of the coun
try. and often the warrior was
confused with the war so the
wairior became unpopular,
too "
He says many veterans ex
perienced. at best, apathy in
their homecoming reception,
“which made it difficult to
reach a safe place to begin
work on what happened and
to talk about what happened,
and to get through the ex
perience and get some
closure to that experience,”
Tice says
Some people have
developed a way of coping
with their experience that
works for a while then breaks
down Tice thinks that’s
especially true now, since
most Vietnam veterans are
approaching the age of 40
He says that the normal life
process — mid age crisis and
mid life kinds of issues or
unresolved emotional pro
blems about the death of
friends in Vietnam — can be
exacerbated by not having
had their problems worked
through years ago
"We re seeing more people
than we used to," says Tice
“It's two things One. there’s
the delayed stress reaction,
and the other one is it takes
people having to give
themselves permission to get
help To get safe Because
there are so many negative
stereotypes about Vietnam
veterans, many veterans who
experienced problems didn't
want to be associated with a
negative stereotype "
It’s easy to generalize about
Vietnam veterans. Most per
vading notions about Viet
nam vets are negative
because of the focus which
was placed on their problems
during and after the war
However. Tice assures peo
ple he has seen a lot of
veterans and that they are as
diverse as any other segment
of the population But the
stereotypes still remain
"I'll tell you how insensitive
people were when I got back
from Vietnam They actually
asked me if I was stoned
when I got wounded, and if
that's why I got wounded.”
Tice says, with disbelief
“Vietnam vets have a lot of
problems — that's another
myth that isn’t true "
The Congressional
Record for Oct 1. 1982, con
tains a fact sheet aimed at
dispelling many of the myths
and half-truths regarding
Vietnam veterans In brief
summary, it reports Vietnam
vets were the best-educated
army America has ever sent
to war. that Vietnam veterans
and the American public
believe vets were not accord
ed the same respect as
soldiers returning from
previous wars, enlistees out
numbered draftees in Viet
nam 3-1 instead of the other
way around, and they were
not a bunch of deadbeats and
drug users
Another common
misconception surrounds the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial.'
“What people have to
understand about the
memorial is that it was not a
memorial given by the United
States to the Vietnam
veterans or to the people It
was given by the Vietnam
veterans, for America," ex
plains Gerry Kamp “And I
think the effect of seeing
59.000 names on a wall with
nothing else, serves better
than any other kind of
memorial to show the price
war extracts from society "
Steve Tice calls the
memorial the greatest healing
power there is for Vietnam
vets and for America Just
looking into the massive black
panels it’s easy to see why
The reflection of the stone
seems to pull you into it and
the names seem to cry out,
each one of them On a per
sonal, human level it’s hard
not to feel something while
standing there It’s hard not to
cry for all the lives that have
been affected by the war
No tickertape parades, no
cheering, only tears. That’s
another difference between
Vietnam and other wars
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