Back then guys returning from the war were called baby-killers, nobody knew about PTSD or survivor's guilt, and his mom and dad were heavy drinkers.
This is another year with a new team, and now we have an opportunity with the guys returning to go out there and prove to everyone that we are a good team".
"We've got a lot of new defensive starters, sometimes eight or nine new defensive guys out there, and they are trying to learn this defense and the two or three guys returning are trying to learn about them," safety Sam Garnes said.
"A lot of these clubs started - were World War II vets or Vietnam vets - and now a lot of clubs have started based around guys returning from Afghanistan and Iraq.
We are like children looking for the bogeyman or watching a movie where the 'good guys' get the 'bad guys,' returning all to a sense of safety.
"To me, the pressing issue is, we've got a bunch of guys returning and a bunch of guys coming in and have to understand the situation here," he said.
Once they start giving them injections of the antipsychotic drugs and talking to them (what they call cognitive-behavioral therapy)—within a couple of months you could see these guys returning to planet Earth.
A fellow American told me that he & his buddies, "a group of old white guys" returning home in a private plane from a golf vacation, decided prior to landing that although they, to a man, "hated Hillary", they were all going to vote for her anyway.
Soon, the delivery guy returned for the misdelivered pizzas.
If the guy returns his weakest shot all the time, he's just too good".
