Welcome to Lest We Forget PTSD Support!
Please keep coming back for updates being our group has relocated and is in the process of making some very important changes! We will be updating and adding those changes over the next few weeks as well as adding important and informative pages like we used to have.
One of the bigger changes will be our "new" Facebook page
This page will include a closed groups page for support group members only. Privacy and Anonymity we feel is very important to not just us but others.
The group plans to meet weekly on Tuesday nights from 6:00-7:30 pm at a location in Beaufort, SC. Our goal is to provide both a men's group, women's group and couples group. Please contact us at info@lestweforgetptsdsupport.org for more information or if you would like to volunteer or help. Free childcare and snacks will be provided.
We are also working to have a more interactive and active blog page for which is part of our own personal recovery. We believe talking is the best medicine out there and as a couple finding new ways to "connect with each other is extremely important. For others who just want to connect and like to just "talk" like my wife, we will be working on a groups page.
For those of you who have followed us and are familiar with who we are we feel it is only proper to update you as to what has transpired in the last few months since we went offline and the reason why we went offline.
"Lest We Forget" PTSD Family & Military Support Group
is a peer and family run support group created by Tom and Diane Vande Burgt, in collaboration with the Care-Net Project of the WV Counsel of Churches. Our group was originally located in Charleston, WV but due to recent circumstances we have relocated to Beaufort, SC.
Tom is a retired veteran having served 15 1/2 yrs active duty in the USMC and retiring in 2006 after serving an additional 8 years in the WVANG. During 2004-2005, Tom served with the 3664th Maintenance Co of the WV Army National Guard in TQ, then in Baghdad with the 245th Maint Co atLog Base Seitz, then back with the 3664th FLE at Camp Anaconda, supporting Co H, 171st Aviation. His wife Diane, though not an Iraq War veteran knows how PTSD affects families as well as veterans being her husband suffers from PTSD. They are working together to provide support to the spouses, families, friends, veterans and soldiers who have been exposed to traumatic experiences and who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or TBI after serving in military hazard zones and provide whatever assistance is necessary.
"Lest We Forget"
Was founded in memory and in honor of the brave men of
Co B, 5th Eng, 5th Mar Div and their loving families
No monument, however large or elaborate, can pay just tribute to any person who has sacrificed their life in the defense of principals he knew God would favor.
We the living..the friends, the relatives and the fellow citizens of our honored dead, are obligated to live a part of our lives in memory of them. We common people of this company that lost twenty men have felt this in our heart, our soul.
The best of each of them is in the breast of all of us and the part of the guiding of our lives shall ever be controlled by knowing and remembering that some of us were unable to live out our natural span of years.
In this conflict of the far Pacific some men die unknown by name, but not unknown for valor None of us can foresee what engagements we will be in, or what casualties we will suffer. This is not for us to know....or worry over.
Someone subconsciously or with determination, shall serve somewhere, sometime to live out the purpose of our untimely, "joining of the great majority"
Written 1945-by Pete Klinefelter 5th MarDiv
