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When You Hear The Bugle Call: Battling PTSD and the Unraveling of the American Conscience
 
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When You Hear The Bugle Call: Battling PTSD and the Unraveling of the American Conscience (Paperback)

~ Peter S. Griffin (Author)
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When You Hear The Bugle Call subtitled, “Battling PTSD and the Unraveling of the American Conscience” is a compelling, poignant and straightforward presentation of sickness and healing, righteousness opposing wrong doing, and the eventual triumph of the human spirit despite overwhelming obstacles and barriers. This very personal account of war and its aftermath was written to benefit combat veterans agonized by severe and chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), composed by one who is living the nightmare, one of their own, a fellow warrior. In the broader scope, this account is meant to help them, and their friends and loved ones to better understand this overwhelming psychological, involuntary, and innate response to continual, life threatening situations. This book will bring them to the realization that they are not alone in their sufferings, help is as close as the nearest Veterans Administration Medical Center and any caring individual who has read and benefited from the pages of this presentation.

Furthermore, it is meant to assist, comfort, understand and equally as important, accept those who gave their best to defend and protect us. It’s not only the GI I am talking about but also the police officer, the fireman, and the rescue personnel… all those who are “damned if they do and damned if they don’t!” All the brave men and women who place their lives in jeopardy, everyday, for the sake of others… for the sake of something bigger than self! This presentation addresses every symptom, obstacle or negative circumstance a PTSD victim will likely experience or encounter, and must overcome, if he or she expects some semblance of peace, love, success, respect, and dignity in their lives!

Victims of terror and natural disasters will benefit from this writing as well. In my opinion there is little, if any, significant difference between combat PTSD and PTSD manifested as a result of traumatic events that occur in the “civilian” world.

This work is not an ordinary, run of the mill “shoot ‘em up” military memoir! PTSD negatively impacts every interpersonal relationship! This book clearly and frankly relates, in vivid detail, how PTSD affects victims in the work place and social settings. In today’s fast paced, very competitive, high stress work-a-day world virtually every victim’s well being, employment and/or career is at risk. There are no immunities or safe harbors! This account addresses those many complex issues and more! All who read this narrative will profit from its message! Spouses, grown children, friends, relatives, employers, supervisors, human resource managers, co-workers and the general public will benefit from first hand knowledge and look with newfound compassion and understanding on those who defend(ed) their life, limbs and freedoms on a daily basis.

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  • Paperback: 258 pages
  • Publisher: Trafford Publishing (October 19, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 142510410X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1425104108
  • Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.1 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,602,516 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Veteran's Story That Needs To Be Read , January 31, 2007
I had read author Peter Griffin's first book; which was basically prose and some thoughts and comments about his Vietnam Experiences--but his memoir, "When You Hear The Bugle Call" brings the reader a fuller spiritual and emotional story. It allows you to reach out and embrace his life with a much deeper understanding. You begin his tale with the opening of his early childhood when he is dealing with his older brother's death in the Korean War and then his life seems to slide right down the "emotional wormhole" of life.

You will find yourself walking with him and sharing his fears, observations, anxieties and physical discomfort as he does his "tour of duty" in Vietnam. That part of the book is a really great story up to there and certainly needs to be understood before continuing his life story when he becomes a police officer. However, his life after Nam takes you to the whole issue of PTSD and his lack of understanding about it. But the sad part is that no one around, including the VA at that time, fully understood what that whole issue was about.

Griffin draws you into his life story like a spider with a sticky web. You know that you are caught and are struggling and are getting yourself entangled emotionally but you cannot fight it and the more you read the more you are wound up in this man's personal life experiences. You hurt for him and scream injustice and want to reach out and rescue him from what is happening to him. But all the reader can do is turn the pages in hope that there is a light at the end of the tunnel some place awaiting him.

The book has punch and power and spiritual energy. It will move you and it will "piss you off" as well, that our country can be so insensitive to our veterans. In the end, the author does the right thing with his book and leads readers to a path out of despair as we see his life turning around. There is no doubt that the baring of his soul will help others. This book will lead some to inner healing as they too go out and seek help for themselves or their loved ones.

This is a riveting account of a warrior and God loving man who gave willing of his heart and soul in service to his country both as a soldier and as a police officer. He is no saint and he points out his own faults along his journey; but he is certainly a courageous man who you would want to cover your back for you!

This book, although not professionally written, makes up for any lack of polish with a life story narrative that will impact you like few others you will ever read. I fully endorse this book for all veterans and their families to read--no matter what war or conflict. This book can be a bridge to inner peace if one takes the lessons from this personal tale. It is a memoir that is on my short list of the truly honest books that deal with PTSD.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Chance Encounter, January 29, 2007
I met Pete "Grif" Griffin in a chance encounter on a street in Madison NC about three years ago. It was a meeting that changed my life. Much like "Grif" I had served in Vietnam with the 101 st Airborne Division, came home to the same welcome he received and had been retired early from a Public Service organization (Fire Department). We hadn't talked long before he began to tell me about PTSD, something I knew absolutely nothing about. My wife and I listened to what he had to say and we left with his phone number and e-mail address. I couldn't get the eerie parallel of our lives out of my mind.
I had always known something wasn't right after I got home from Vietnam. As it was it seemed that everyone knew something had changed me? Now some Thirty-Four years later we had a name. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. After a short period of time "Grif" got me in touch with the man mentioned in chapter thirty of his book, Mr. James O. Ward, (DSO) of the local VFW. From there I was on my way to learning about something that had tormented me for so many years. I was put in touch with Mr. Timothy Doherty, LCSW at my local VA Outpatient Clinic. I was immediately diagnosed with PTSD and have spent many, many hours with Mr. Doherty in the years since we first met. Many thanks to "Grif" for starting me down the road to understanding and many thanks to Mr. Doherty for his learned leadership on that road. Any Veteran or his family would benefit from reading "Grifs" book. You just might find yourself in there just like I did. Help is out there. You just need a " chance encounter" with " When You Hear The Bugle Call". Good things start with a clear understanding of PTSD. This book lays the foundation for veterans and their families to start down that road of understanding!

Stephen F. Baldwin
January 29, 2007
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5.0 out of 5 stars An Amazing Journey Through Combat, PTSD and Life!, February 2, 2009
Pete Griffin has laid his soul open and told just how and why Post Combat Stress Disorder affects military combatants. I have to admire the way he so succinctly and yet so simply states his case for the demons that wrest tranquility from the lives of so many combat veterans.

In telling his life story he gives tribute to many friends and fellow soldiers who otherwise would never be mentioned by historians. It seems that the period in which he served in Vietnam, July 1965 to June 1966, is almost a forgotten time of that war. Griffin catalogs his personal experiences and the many battles of the "Nomads of Vietnam", the 1st Brigade (Separate)101st Airborne Division during this time. His account is amazingly accurate as to names, dates, times and actions.

Anyone desiring to understand the background of the majority of Americans who served in the Vietnam war need only to read this book. Peter Griffin comes from the heart and soul of everything that was good about America in the 1960's. His journey through life continues as has that of thousands of combat veterans from every era. For many, life continues to be lived in the world of a daily struggle experienced in a manner which only they who have served in combat can understand. "When You Hear The Bugle Call" attempts to let the outsider into that world while presenting the case for seeking and providing help for those suffering from Post Combat Stress Disorder. Griffin has fully met his objective.
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