Dear frens, I am feeling compelled and led by the spirit of Christ to send out an SOS for a patient I see regularly.
Without giving specifics, he is in a really, really bad place. He served for many years during Bush/Clinton/Obama era in the Middle East and obviously has some really horrible experiences.
Please pray for release from the horror he saw. Name him as Patriot X. Our good Lord will know him, and all others in the same spot.
They all need our prayers.
I don't know if Air Force pilots get visited by the same evils as ground troops in combat but I now my Father was forever changed when he came back after flying F-4s in Vietnam for 18 months. I remember he was older looking, he was 38 . His hair had gone grey on the sides.
He was leaner and he seemed kind of sad to my 13 old self.
I remember being at church and for the first time, Pop didn't take holy communion.
I was an altar boy at the time and it shocked me. Cause from the altar looking out into the church he looked really sad and tired.
I remember he used to send little tape recordings home.
He would say they BBQd hamburgers Saturday night after flying over the jungles all week and bombed more monkeys.
I used to think he was trying to make my brothers and I laugh, talking about monkeys.
But now maybe I'm thinking he was saying we bombed enemy "people" today and calling them monkeys might make his job a little less horrendous.
But he was not the same as before.
A year later he went back, this time in a B52.
And we never saw him again.