prefacing

I realized tonight when thinking about what to write that I hadn't said a few things that needed to be said........

Number 1~My abuser and my brothers abuser was never prosacuted (spl), so I will never mention his name.....This is out of respect for another brother who knows very little of the abuse......Not because he was so protected but because he was to young to remember the abuse....He hears second hand about the abuse but has a hard time believing it happened.

Number 2~Some of the accounts of abuse have never been told to other people ever but will play a part in how I grew up and into the woman I have become

Number 3~When I talk about my dad, Bob Rose, these recollections of abuse are from several different people.......While my dad did abuse us, I have chosen to forgive him and love him as he was...He is no longer with us on this earth and my heart aches each and every day for him......No one is perfect.......Dad had his faults...He never got treatment for his PTSD from his time as a Seabee in the Navy serving 3 tours of duty in Vietnam, while this does not excuse his behavior it does atribute to it.......