the War Horse ~> I Couldn’t Fix the Problems From Inside. To Be Part of the Solution, I Had to Leave.

APRIL 12, 2023| KIRSTEN LAHA-WALSH READ

I spent four years as a respiratory therapist in the Navy. I did not see combat. I still have nightmares, though. Some are about the patients I couldn’t save. This is the nature of the work. But the other nightmares—they are the lingering remnants of trauma brought on by the toxic leadership I experienced during my service. 

About michael burgwin

A child of the peace and antiWar movements, a Truther with self-diagnosed Opposition Defiance Disorder, formerly politically liberal tho now politically marooned, and Post-Doomer, on any issue, I trend to the conspiracy side, sort through the absurd, fantastical and insane, until I find firm ground usually located just the other side of the censorship firewall of propaganda and orthodoxy, dogma, and other either / or thinking.
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