***Trigger warning - this episode contains a detailed account of traumatic events and explicit language***
"To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can't sit still, move, or even go decently insane." Charles Bukowski
The details surrounding my assault are an ether in my mind. I spent years trying to remember specific details (names, date, etc.) but suppressed so much for so long that what remains is a shell of a story with only key events and seemingly insignificant details remaining. As you will hear in this episode that suppression was necessary at the time for my survival.
Sharing this story is not meant to traumatize the listener, rather it is told to educate and awaken each of us to the realities that existed in our service almost 20 years ago, and sadly, still do to this day. What we do with that knowledge is move forward. We listen to each other and learn what impacts our lives so that we can make it better. I hope that anybody listening can take this story and share it with their shipmates, friends, and loved ones to prevent similar atrocities in the future.
Theme music by David Brown of Wayward Blues - check him out at https://www.waywardblues.com and on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/0KgZ83CWsea30o358XU3S9?si=e8jb3BEJS2yvBirLqR8-PQ
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