Dr. Clyde Horn is a former Army infantryman, Purple Coronary heart recipient, and Vietnam Veteran. He served within the 199th Mild Infantry Brigade close to Saigon combating within the Iron Triangle from 1967-1968 and supported US forces through the Tet Offensive.
After the army, he helped youngsters affected by trauma as a psychotherapist. Regardless of this work and his consideration to different individuals’s trauma, he didn’t acknowledge his personal PTSD till 2009. His compelling story of fight, serving to others, getting assist himself, and ultimately returning to the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC, will ring true for a lot of veterans.
He has since written two books: PTSD in Footage and Phrases and Veteran Guilt in Footage and Phrases. He additionally makes use of artwork as a part of his personal therapy (artlifting.com).
0:00 Intro
4:20 – Signed up for the Army with out telling anybody within the household.
5:30 – Superior coaching in Fort Polk, LA, in “Tiger Land.”
6:11 – The fundamentals for any soldier: Don’t volunteer for something.
6:33 – Drill Instructors, existentialism, and pornography.
16:51 – The “Iron Triangle”.
19:15 – Assigned to 199th Mild Infantry Brigade close to Saigon in 1967.
21:31 – Description of first fight patrol in Vietnam.
26:15 – Subject rotation cycle. Sizzling chow, bathe, mattress with a roof over your head,
27:59 – Moved to Cam Ranh Bay to look at President Lyndon Johnson converse. Footage from the time.
29:46 – First expertise within the jungle in a motion to contact was an “out of physique expertise.” ‘The start of hysteria units in that stayed with me for the remainder of my life.’
34:00 – First time involved strolling into an ambush.
41:21 – “I’ll survive” mantra. PTSD begins early throughout a traumatic incident. Reasonably than let my acute senses and reactions harm me, how can they assist me?
44:50 – By no means noticed a ‘stone chilly killer.’ Go to Hollywood for that.
48:00 – “Hell on Earth” description of one of many hardest engagements when the 199th had two to a few corporations ambushed by an enemy regiment.
48:45 – Hearth begins coming at us….
54:24 – Description of engagement wherein Clyde earned the Purple Coronary heart.
57:34 – Observing a Platoon Chief being overly cocky and the perils of that mindset.
1:01:06 – Utilizing night time imaginative and prescient in Vietnam with a tremendous remark made because of the brand new tech.
1:06:07 – Good luck allure: a gold cross.
1:09:50 – Supporting defenses through the Tet Offensive.
1:14:00 – Getting back from Vietnam to – of all locations – Berkeley.
1:20:55 – After retiring from psychology, Clyde has a ‘full blown’ assault of PTSD.
1:29:07 – Visiting ‘The Wall.’
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