Posts Tagged ‘VA medical center’

Pretty Bubbles

Andre had been a Navy SEAL during the Vietnam War. He was fifty six years old when I first met him at the San Diego VA Medical Center in March, 1994. He was African American, divorced, with four children and ten grandchildren. Navy Seal…

Read More

TAGGED IN: , , ,

Surviving Day Two

During the period from 1991 to 1993 I was a Research Fellow in psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). It was the time of the first Gulf War. Vietnam Veterans who had been hiding out in their homes or in the woods for…

Read More

TAGGED IN: , , ,