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Survivor
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so people in one room with large communal showers and toilets. We stood in line for food but most of the DP experience is totally erased from my memory.
Was the food bad? Did I feel shame and humiliation? I can’t remember. I know from photos that I was thin as an anorexic. Those photos also show my family and friends all with haunted looks as if we had seen ghosts.
The experience of 9/11 was horrifying for me. We all wept. I knew the rubble that was Ground Zero for I had been there before. But also, on some level, it gave me a personal validation. I better understood what had been happening to me because thousands of people here were experiencing something similar leading to symptoms that I knew about, such as post-traumatic suffering, survival guilt and being victimized. I could talk to them and be understood.
I am just beginning to grasp the different ways my wartime experiences wounded me and why I only feel safe in the sanctuary of my home. Healing has begun, but it is far from over.
I don’t want other innocent human beings to repeat what I and many thousands of others went through. I believe that nothing good comes from war and that many who have lived through it, even when “liberated,” turn to hate instead of compassion and understanding.
In my own case I am surprised at the growing rage I feel when I hear that we need to go to war and invade another country. I identify totally with the children, mothers and fathers who are
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