Reply #59: Same here ...long time grudge from my 90-yr old mother. [View All]

[caledesi]

My father was in the Merchant Marines and was in the Persian Gulf when he had a "nervous breakdown" on the ship. They brought him to a hospital in Lebanon.

In the beginning all my mother knew was about the hospital in Lebanon.
She called the Red Cross for help to locate him and see about sending him back to the States. This was in the 50s, so it's not like one made any internatonal calls and the Merchant Mariners came back in general from ship, not air.

She got no help and my father stayed in that hospital ONE year. She will never forgive them.