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When you worry about inheriting generational military trauma

I watch my dad struggle with nightmares from Vietnam and wonder if I am destined to carry my own war for fifty years too.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The witness of unhealed wounds in those who came before creates a fear that suffering is hereditary rather than circumstantial.

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