As a lead preacher I was exposed to countless close proximity explosions some of them caused bleeding from my nose or ears it definitely had some effect on my health and I did have trouble sleeping as I transitioned to civilian life. The military provides structure camaraderie and stability to a lot of people who have never experienced any of those things before. There's nothing that ever bothered me about the war but traumatic brain injury is a different story. My wife Rachel has always been significantly more proper than me so she kept telling me not to just spit out the first thought that came to my head when somebody said something stupid. Sometimes I felt like I was taking etiquette classesYeah I'm fully domesticated I know