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discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,470 posts)
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 03:45 PM Jan 2022

Mary Ann Vecchio learned she had PTSD. It took over 30 years till she knew.

She was a runaway and high school dropout. Mary Ann got her diploma 20 years ago at age 46. She went on to community college to train for and then work as a respiratory therapist at a Veterans Affairs Center. That's where she realized she had PTSD.

This is Mary Ann 12 years ago:


I hope that she is happy today. She is a ray of hope for me and I hope others that went through a bad time will talk to someone and maybe get some counseling or some kind of help if they need it. This wonderful person is an inspiration as someone who remade her life much later than most of us.

I'm an old guy so I remember her picture from when she was 14:


Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Ann_Vecchio

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Mary Ann Vecchio learned she had PTSD. It took over 30 years till she knew. (Original Post) discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2022 OP
It is not exaggeration to say that photo always brings tears. And CSNY's "Ohio" only clinches it. hlthe2b Jan 2022 #1
One of the few things I remember from 50 years that was only partly humorous... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2022 #3
Kent State happened on my sixteenth birthday. rsdsharp Jan 2022 #2
There are some awful things that happened on someone's birthday. discntnt_irny_srcsm Jan 2022 #4

hlthe2b

(101,699 posts)
1. It is not exaggeration to say that photo always brings tears. And CSNY's "Ohio" only clinches it.
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 03:50 PM
Jan 2022

I can only imagine how hard it has been for her.

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,470 posts)
3. One of the few things I remember from 50 years that was only partly humorous...
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 04:02 PM
Jan 2022

...but also very serious was something my cousin an Army vet said: "Friendly fire isn't."
He came back a different person.

Ohio does it for me as well.

Trivia: Joe Walsh was student at Kent State at the time. He quit after that.

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,470 posts)
4. There are some awful things that happened on someone's birthday.
Sun Jan 16, 2022, 05:02 PM
Jan 2022

We have a friend with a birthday on the 11th of September.
Two weeks after Kent State is the anniversary of the deadliest school killing, May 18th, 1927 in Bath, MI.

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