Veteran's Day: Memories of Vietnam War's horror still haunt after four decades
2:12 AM, Nov. 11, 2011
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JENS MANUEL KROGSTAD
Ray Hutchison still feels hunted, four decades after Vietnam.
His paranoia and anxiety swell in crowded rooms. At his grandson’s fourth-grade musicals, he sits in back, at the end of a row near the exits. At restaurants, he sits at tables with his back against the wall.
Hutchison, 63, hates Fourth of July fireworks.
“I need a way out,” he said. “A quick way out. I try to get out without screaming and hollering and climbing over people.”
Hutchison traces his post-traumatic stress disorder to the Tet offensive of 1968 in Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City. He was one of hundreds of military police who patrolled a city of millions while under constant but unpredictable gunfire.
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