Final Destination

[Dario_M]

27 minutes ago, Stargazer said:

Some of the D-Day veterans who watched "Saving Private Ryan" were somewhat re-traumatized by the realism of the D-Day sequence. 

I can imagine that. Some movies are so realistic and violent that they give even me a trauma. 

I can remember that a few years ago my sister forced me to go to the picturehouse to see the latest Saw movie. It was so horible that i couldn't sleep for a whole week.

Edited August 31, 2024 by Dario_M

[Stargazer]

3 hours ago, Dario_M said:

I can imagine that. Some movies are so realistic and violent that they give even me a trauma. 

I can remember that a few years ago my sister forced me to go to the picturehouse to see the latest Saw movie. It was so horible that i couldn't sleep for a whole week.

I've seen a few clips from a Saw movie. Horrifying! That's enough; I wouldn't watch any of them unless I was very very well paid. Like more money than anyone is likely to want to pay.

[Calm]

2 hours ago, Stargazer said:

Like more money than anyone is likely to want to pay.

Yeah and then I would close my eyes.  I cannot imagine any realistic justification for me choosing to watch one.  If my grandchild begged me to go because they couldn’t stand to watch it alone and they had to do it for a class, I would protest to the professor first on why such was required and threatened to go to administration.  If all that failed and I couldn’t persuade my grandchild to rethink their major, perhaps I would go then.

If they gave me enough to pay for some medical stuff I want done for me and my daughter, I would probably do it, but that would likely be over $50,000 at minimum.  It sounds likely extreme, but not much long term can be done for less that I am aware of (I am thinking of something like sending her and me off to a health resort for some huge support and investigation into issues, we are well off enough and have good insurance to cover the usual and short term stuff, I realize I am quite privileged not to need money in smaller amounts).  And those images would be with me the rest of my life just as a nightmare I had when I was around three still gets to me as does another one when I was in my twenties and yet another one in my thirties.  Then there was my first exposure to porn in grade 7 from a flyer that blew into my school yard. It was not a beauty shot, but showed the uglier side of porn imo. 

It would be nice to be able to scrub out the brain. I can forget sounds, much harder for me to forget what I see though it does tend to blur. 

Edited August 31, 2024 by Calm

[manol]

3 hours ago, Stargazer said:

Some of the D-Day veterans who watched "Saving Private Ryan" were somewhat re-traumatized by the realism of the D-Day sequence. 

My step-father served five tours in Viet Nam, so not a D-Day veteran, but a veteran.  He had zero desire to ever watch "Saving Private Ryan". 

[Dario_M]

17 minutes ago, Stargazer said:

I've seen a few clips from a Saw movie. Horrifying! That's enough; I wouldn't watch any of them unless I was very very well paid. Like more money than anyone is likely to want to pay.

That's a wise decision of you. Those Saw series are so evil horific and satanic that it will absolutely mess with thoughts. Plus it's difficuld to get some of those images out your head after you've seen them. Like me. 

Edited August 31, 2024 by Dario_M

[Stargazer]

1 hour ago, manol said:

My step-father served five tours in Viet Nam, so not a D-Day veteran, but a veteran.  He had zero desire to ever watch "Saving Private Ryan". 

Five tours! Wow! What did he do in the military?

As a veteran but not a combat veteran, I felt somewhat obligated to watch "Saving Private Ryan," in order to feel a little bit more connected with those who had "seen the elephant," as it is sometimes said. Some of my comrades participated in Desert Storm not terribly long after my discharge, and in not going with them I felt a little like I had let them down by not being in a position to have their backs. One LDS servicemember I was friends with stayed in for a career and ended up a Command Sergeant Major in the Army, in the 10th Mountain Division, in Afghanistan. One of his sons was in Special Forces and was killed in action there. I have huge amounts of respect for those who put their lives on the line.

[manol]

1 hour ago, Stargazer said:

Five tours! Wow! What did he do in the military?

He was a Marine Corps aviator. He had been a flight instructor in fixed-wing ground-attack aircraft (F-4U Corsairs) during the Korean war.  When the US entered the Viet Nam war the Marine Corps needed helicopter pilots, so he transitioned to rotary wing and flew helicopters.  When the US gave Douglas A-1Ds (fixed-wing ground-attack aircraft) to the South Vietnamese Air Force, he taught their pilots how to fly and use the aircraft, and flew with them in combat.  He also flew C-130s (transports) and was often a ground Forward Air Controller in between missions.  He fought on the ground many times, including during the defense of Da Nang during the Tet Offensive, in which his battalion suffered over 100% casualties (for you mathematicians out there... cough cough @Calm cough... some guys got wounded more than once).  During the final air campaign, Linebacker II, when the US had already withdrawn all ground forces and was mainly trying to get our POW's released as part of the Paris peace negotiations, he flew A-1Ds against North Vietnamese SAM and AAA sites around Hanoi, attacking them with dumb bombs, which was probably rather intense.  That's the four tours we know something about, and he kept his involvement in Linebacker II a secret for almost forty years.  One of the five tours remains a mystery to the family; we don't know what he did. 

He was blackballed because he went over the head of the Marine Corp commander in Viet Nam (I think he went directly to General Westmoreland) to stop the Marines from doing something stupid which would have basically cost them all of their helicopters.  He was never promoted after that.  One of his comrades told my mother that he was "the finest officer in the Marine Corps but he would never be promoted" because he had been blackballed. 

He deeply loved the South Vietnamese people and believed in what he was doing. 

Edited September 1, 2024 by manol

[Calm]

On 8/27/2024 at 10:31 PM, Tacenda said:

You'll be in my prayers for sure,  hopefully I won't jinx it!  🙏

So my brain fog messed up that last Thursday was a test that blocked the pain for a couple of hours to be sure an ablation would work.  The test worked, but for some reason burnt me out and I am still in recovery mode.  Probably will recover just in time for the next test (this week maybe).  If that one is also successful, I get the real procedure next.  So keep the prayers coming.    I am hoping to be back on track by the end of September.

[Tacenda]

9 hours ago, Calm said:

So my brain fog messed up that last Thursday was a test that blocked the pain for a couple of hours to be sure an ablation would work.  The test worked, but for some reason burnt me out and I am still in recovery mode.  Probably will recover just in time for the next test (this week maybe).  If that one is also successful, I get the real procedure next.  So keep the prayers coming.    I am hoping to be back on track by the end of September.

I was wondering what took place, I will keep you in my prayers.