Coming home…a very personal journey
Posted by Chrystina Tovani on February 14, 2009
This is a moving tribute by a fellow veteran returning from duty in Iraq.
There are no words that I can express for the emotions that this video stirred in my heart. So touching, so real and personal. ~ Chrysti
I present you, “I Will Keep You In My Eye (a place on the map)”. by Susan http://www.youtube.com/user/ooolong9
This video does not specifically represent all of the views of the United States Armed Forces.
Sphere: Related ContentJust like everything else in life, war is an individual experience. It’s not a political objective, it’s a change of life. Personally I had it so very lucky in comparison.
I posted this video, because I was trying to work Misty Mayhems music into a video. I listened to this song about lost love, and all I could think of was Iraq. Taking a shower I tried to wash the idea down the drain because I swore that I would never post something like this, or do anything that would publicly credit myself. Not because I am ashamed, quite the opposite, but not prepared to openly share this experience, which I hadnt done until now, with out lacing it with a sense of patriotism to mask my more subtle feelings on the matter.
These people touched my life, and like others, my thoughts turn to them, and this experience. I know not everyone feels the same, and understandably so.
Lessons learned: When away from family, friends, car, TV shows, and most of my worldly attachments, and put my efforts into a cause that I believed in, I found a sense of peace that I had rarely found before, and never for any duration of time. This wasn’t in a church house; it was in my heart. Not that there was all peace and love there, but when I actually stopped and taught someone something, helped somebody, it was always there.
At those times I found the person I could be.
http://www.youtube.com/user/ooolong9“I’m Not Here” by Mysti Mayhem
Used with permission
http://www.youtube.com/mystimayhem
thank you Mysti.
Scott Plachter said,
I was directed here through Mysti’s StereoFame site…It was much more than I expected…beautiful a war story told than I have ever seen…tears followed with ease but warmth of soul remain….I was very young at the time when VietNam covered our entire being…but I will never forget everyday on every news program and printed media the video and printed awareness of war…the daily death toll and injured…in my little town of Brooklyn N.Y…no one I ever heard had anything but the most loving and most heartfelt words of pride for all our military…now as always a love for all that is good and with pride…you and everyone with the VFW…America loves you…Scott
Ray Baisden said,
I am deeply moved by this. It is testament to the fact that Americans can and will carry out their duty while maintaining an awareness of and a sensitivity to what we are doing.
This young soldier does credit to herself, to her country, and does it with remarkably perceptive artistry.
Thank you
Chrystina Tovani said,
I came back to look at this after reading about a Sacramento man who took his own life 15 months after returning from Iraq. http://www.sacbee.com/topstories/story/1937045.html
So sad. I wish there was a way to reach out and help ease the burdens these people carry. I wish that people would not feel such a stigma attached to getting help for mental health issues. We need to change the way we think/talk and react about this and stop making jokes and causing people to be ashamed of asking for help when their very life depends on it.
I think that coming home can be just as hard as being there.
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