G.I. Joe & Lillie The Oak Ridge Boys and PTSD

This song is about standing by a combat veteran haunted by combat.

Wives ask me all the time about standing by their side when they have PTSD, even though now there is a wealth of information available to help them cope with the changes in the husband brought on by combat. I tell them that it depends on how much they love them and what they are capable of. Some are just not able to stay because they have to be able to cope with the long list of changes, from nightmares to flashbacks, from angry outbursts followed by tears. If we look at the older wives that did it without any information at all, no support set up for them, nothing but love to hang onto, we understand that it can be done if love is really there.