Captain Biorhythm Helps You Discover Your Inner Hero

Wow! Was this a Happy Holidays message I never expected.

My conversation with a suicidal and very depressed Vietnam Veteran definitely made my Christmas and New Years Holidays memorable. There are so many people who suffer emotionally from severe, debilitating depression. Often the feelings of loneliness and depression escalate during the Holidays into a suicidal frenzy.

Many returning Vietnam Vets were verbally abused and excoriated by the media and the war protesters during and after the Vietnam War. Few people realize just how traumatized our soldiers were from serving our nation during that terrible time. Our brave soldiers and service people who sacrificed so much so that we could have freedom in the United States did not deserve the horrible treatment they received.

The Vietnam Vet who is involved in this life or death discussion gave me permission to share his pain and my response to his cries for help in a dark and desperate place.

What would you say to this person that will help him choose life over death, good over evil, love rather than hate.

Please post your comments that are encouraging and uplifting and any good advice or resources you know about to help everyone who is suffering from the terminal depression.
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12-20-07 12:49 PM first message

Dear Ralph,

I really do appreciate and applaud you for the giant effort you have invested in the hero thing. BUT I do have to question your screening process. I stumbled across the interview for “a person who is not a hero”.

I have to tell you this person (I will not even give him the honor of calling him a man) had an affair with my wife. But to be even less reality based when I found out and called his house I got his wife.

So thinking that he would not mind since he was doing my wife, I asked her out. She inquired who I was and I told her I was married to the person her husband was seeing. When I told her my wife’s name she said “Again?”

It turns out the two of them had gone out before I married her but while he was married. After she hung up he called my house and started ranting about me talking to his wife and telling her about the affair.

I was so dumbfounded that when he said he wanted to fight me I could not believe it. First of all he never could fight second he was then one in the wrong. I chose not to meet him for a fight.

I knew that he knew he was no match for me so I could only assume it would be some kind of trick or I would be ambushed be several people. He continued to see my wife for some time after that.

What he does not know is that I spared his life. I found out where he lived and watched him for awhile. I had a 22 cal rifle with a scope.

One night I was thinking I would kill him so I waited for him to come home. I had him in the cross hairs but for some reason I thought about his kids and how much this would hurt them.

Then I thought about my children and how much it would hurt them to find out their mother was sneaking around with another man. I also realized that he would not be with my wife had she not made herself available to him.

Hurting and confused I decided to endure this pain and distrust until my children were grown. That is what I have done.

I must tell you, to hear this person make comments on ethics and morals made me physically ill.

I will be dead by sometime next month and none of this will matter then. But I think you would like to be aware that your hero screening process might need a little tweaking. I have known real heroes and I have known “person who is not a hero” since we where kids. He is no hero by any stretch of the imagination.