Alan Cutter's Story
Coming home, 20 years later
"I would greet the sunrise, often with a bottle of bourbon, toasting the sun with 'It's a good day to die.'"
Alan Cutter talks about Vietnam, and the decades-long process of healing from it.
As an Ensign in the US Navy during the Vietnam War, Alan Cutter did things that no low-ranking officer should have been asked to do.
Alan spent his time in-country as a Spook, advising the South Vietnamese Army, and witnessed unspeakable horrors. When his CO demanded that he accept a promotion, Alan balked, and declared that he was leaving the Navy to become a minister.
Even after seminary and working with other veterans, it took Alan decades before he was ready to come to terms with the terrible things he had seen, and his own resulting PTSD.
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