I appreciate how irritating tin rattling is - loathe it myself. However, having put my head above the parapet on this one, feel under a certain obligation.
Bidding at circa £15 at present - thank you kindly Mavers. My Ebay isnt showing any watchers, so assuming the bids are the interest. Thats OK, but at present looking like Mavers and I are set to just pass the carving back and forth between us!
Doing this with best of intentions, fair nuff if not really working out - still worth the try.
Suppose Combat Stress is an arguable cause - I can sympathise with the view that people these days volunteer for service - eyes wide open. Equally, Government makes use of them so should properly fund reassembly of the pieces afterward. But the anguish is real and no one believes it will happen to them. The pain hits those who love sufferers hardest of all.
Realise 'Nam is flogged to death, but a short while ago a sad marker was passed; more ex-service personnel had committed suicide since the Falklands than had died in the conflict.
It is very hard or impossible to understand the way your mind goes when you get ill like this - if you read Freefall by Tom Read ( aka Charles Nish Bruce ) and actually understand anything he raves about, you really need to seek help!
. If you at least have become aware of Combat Stress through this thread, then that is a leap forward in itself.
Final sentences on the hanky wringing bit. The majority of my acquaintences who took their lives, did so not because of pain inside but to protect those around them. They realised their capacity to commit horror beyond what any of us would really like to dwell upon. In their confusion they still care enough to end it rather than hurt others. ( as they see it )
Ok - apologies for the lecture.
Bids arent about money for the carving, its about what every pound raised can buy.
Promise - last tin rattle.
Thank you everyone that has bid thus far - really do appreciate it.
