text: PTSD is a very real problem. Most older vets have blocked most of not all bad memories from their time. Problem with this is it also blocks any good and all other memories from before the last stressor. Me I have very few and scattered memories of almost anything in my life before 99. There has to be a prompt to even bring them up in my mind. I can’t tell you of the good times in my childhood they are gone. The only clear memories I have now are only of the last 22 yrs If prompted then bits and pieces come back however your training and discipline is always there.