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This continuing story describes my life after active duty and while in the navy reserves. Its the story of my struggle to make a normal life for myself, all the while unaware that I was suffering from depression, ADD, and dyslexia.Despite my family of origin placing me into foster care at age twelve, I attempted on numerous occasions to reach out to them, wanting to be accepted and loved by them. I failed to achieve this, so Ive quit trying. It only causes me more depression.Some verses from 2 Corinthians chapter 4 sum up my feelings about that part of my life:But we have this treasure in earthen vessels We are hard pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.

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Publié par	Inspiring Voices
Date de parution	14 mai 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781462401369
Langue	English

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Still 1navywoman

A Painful Journey

Denise Boulet

Copyright © 2012 Denise Boulet

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ISBN: 978-1-4624-0137-6 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-4624-0136-9 (e)
Library of Congress Control Number: 2012937435

Inspiring Voices rev. date: 05/10/2012
Contents
My Thanks
Preface
Still 1Navywoman
The U.S. Navy Reserves
My fear of flying
My flight to Naples IT
God Loves Women
Women aboard the ISS
Depression
P.T.S.D.
Vet Centers
Helpful Web Sites
Sexual Molestation in the Church
Epigraph

For Mother, Jim-Bo and George
My Thanks
At first, I did not think that I had anybody to thank and it is true that I did not have any help writing this book I have people to thank anyway.
First, to my mother, Flora Belle Boulet for giving me life and trying to be a mother. You did the best you could.
To the United States Navy for allowing me to join and to the many senior enlisted personnel who helped me in my advancement through the ranks to E6. To the instructors who did a great job of teaching in the Navy schools I attended. Most of them were interesting, I was interested, and you made it that way.
To the VA doctors and nurses who care for me but especially to the psychologist and psychiatrist who talked to me and who listened when I talked and put me on medication to help me. I had to try different ones before I found the one that works but thank you all. The medication helps me to live my day-to-day life and to finally, after many years, to tell my story.
Preface
If you have not read my first book, 1navywoman, you probably will not understand this one because it is a continuation of the first one. But then again who knows?
In the first book, I describe my horrible childhood, my nightmare years in foster care and the sexual molestation and rape I suffered there, and finally, about five years after my high school graduation, and making a lot of mistakes in life, I joined the Navy and that made all the difference in my life. It got me away from Louisiana, gave me a career and a direction in life for which I am thankful and that’s why I named the first book 1navywoman.
In this, my second book, I relate the story of me processing off active duty and joining the Navy Reserves and the confusion of becoming a part time civilian and a part time Navy person. Today’s military have plenty of help with transitioning from military to civilian life. In 1983, nothing was in place to help veterans who made the choice to process from the military so we were left on our on out in the cold and believe me, it is a cold world.
Let me say that joining the military during the Viet Nam “era” was, to say the least, bad; to say the most, awful! I could have joined at another time, and wish that I had.
It was an unpopular war back home! There were protests, riots and an “incident” at Kent Campus, at Kent University in Kent, Ohio. You can do your own online search. Veterans returning from the war were spit on and probably worse than that. Sam was spat on even though he never went anywhere near Nam!
Men resented women in the Navy because we were not sent aboard ships and we were taking up shore billets that the men wanted and it was not fair to them. After all, they wanted to spend time at shore and with their families.
While I understood, I did not appreciate the male attitudes, the catcalls, and the sexual harassment, which went on constantly for many years. It would take a lot of time to change the ways of both men and women because both are capable of harassment, especially sexual harassment. I have to admit that it was a far better Navy that I retired from than the one I joined. We had all come a long way and I am sure they are still becoming a better and better Navy.
Meanwhile, let me explain something to you civilians, especially those of you in management. Do not harass veterans. Do not single them out to aggravate and tick off or you are liable to have a lawsuit on your hands. I remember one person at the last civilian job I worked who singled me out for harassment just because he thought he was a supervisor. I should have filed a complaint against him but I was just so depressed. However, if he ever crosses me again I might just file a complaint against him. In addition, there was more than one person at more than one job. Let me assure you any veteran, even an E-1 just out of boot camp, is already more of a manager than most college graduates are. So do not harass veterans that means you do not harass them.

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