My Tour In Hell
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David W. Powell enlisted for a tour of duty in April 1966 with the USMarines after receiving an imminent draft notice. Believing he would beable to leverage his existing skills as a computer programmer, he neverthought all they would see on his resume was his Karate expertise. Evenless that he would wind up serving as a Rocket man in the jungles of DaNang and Chu Lai for a 13 month tour in hell.Davids journey from naive civilian to battle-hardened combat veteranshows us all how fragile our humanity really is. In addition to killingthe enemy on the field of battle, he was witness to countless crueltiesincluding murder both cold-blooded and casual, cowardice under fire, anda callous disregard for life beyond most peoples imagination. Witheach new insult, he lost a little bit of his soul, clinging to his Bibleas his only solace while equally certain of his own imminent demise.Upon returning to civilian life after a two year enlistment, he foundhimself with nightmares during sleep, intrusive thoughts while awake, ahypervigilant stance combined with an exaggerated startle reaction, anda seeming inability to control basic emotions like anger and sadness.The price he paid for what would only be diagnosed decades later asPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder was broken marriages and relationships,inability to hold down jobs leading to bankruptcy, alcohol abuse, andhaving to hide the service he willingly gave to his own country.In 1989, David eventually recovered through a simple but powerfultechnique known as Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR) and is nowsymptom-free. Not just for veterans, TIR has since been successfullyapplied to crime and motor vehicle accident victims, domestic violencesurvivors, and even children. His story shows what is possible foranyone who has suffered traumatic stress and that hope, healing, andrecovery can be theirs too.What People Are Saying About My Tour In HellHis autobiographical work is a must read for ve
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