Jim God bless you and thank you for your service. PTSD is no joke. I am a Viet Nam vet.with PTSD also. My Demon and my old Ford trucks have been my therapy for the last 50 years.
my older brother did two tours in Vietnam in the Marines 68-70 at NAS Marble Mountain, and hill 886. he spent two years after his return just "roaming around" trying to find peace. my dad was a WW2 Marine in the Pacific and died shortly after i returned from iraq in 2006. i wish i would have had more time with him after i returned. i think he could have helped me deal with various problems i had. my mother never talked much about what my dad was like when he got back other than a few comments about him having bad dreams sometimes and jumping out of bed and running outside and getting on the ground. PTSD is an odd thing. it is like a "switch" that can get triggered by just a random event or image. i hope you've been able to find some peace. i can completely understand you spending a lot of time with your Demon and ford trucks. when i'm working on one of my Barracudas and listening to oldies on the radio, i can forget about iraq for a while. take care.
