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Recently, Mihir Shah of the US Review of Books highly praised “Why Didn’t I Die: A Memoir of PTSD” by Fred W. Kirkpatrick.
“Why Didn’t I Die: A Memoir of PTSD” is the author’s legacy for forty years as he suffered from something that was not defined until 1980 as PTSD, a full twelve years after he left Vietnam.
This compelling memoir is his story of his struggles. The author hopes that his story helps families dealing with PTSD or complex PTSD to know what PTSD is and help them heal and learn how to deal with and cope with PTSD.
Fred Kirkpatrick served with the famed First Infantry’s Black Lions as a combat infantryman in Vietnam in 1967. He was exposed to Agent Orange and struggled to try and understand what PTSD was doing to his life. He writes about those struggles as a new author in his memoir of PTSD, “Why Didn’t I Die?”
In a strange twist of irony, his father, nearly fifty years earlier, was exposed to lethal gas in World War I as a combat infantryman with the 4th Division in France. His father would later be found to be suffering from “shell shock,” which would now be regarded as a form of PTSD.