Two veterans healing from PTSD from Khe Sanh to Kirkut

VIDEO: Two soldiers deal with mental, emotional battle scars
By RON VIDIKA
rvidika@MorningJournal.com
LORAIN — If not for their disparate ages, you would think Bill Wenger and Rachel Ferrer fought in the same war.

Both came home from battle with clean bills of health, physically. But mentally and emotionally, war had taken its toll on both in the form of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, psychological turmoil brought on by the horrors of battle that remain with soldiers long after the war has ended.

Wenger, 61, a native Lorainite, now living in Florida, served two tours of duty in Vietnam and fought in the battle of Khe Sanh, one of the bloodiest of the war.

He is the author of “A Bunker Mentality: Surviving War and Living with PTSD.”

Ferrer, 26, of Lorain, served six months with the U.S. Air Force in Iraq, manning an M-60 machine gun atop a Humvee through the dusty, narrow and deadly streets of Kirkuk.

Both Wenger and Ferrer came back from their respective wars with the same set of untreated emotional and mental wounds.
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Two soldiers deal with mental, emotional battle scars