Darrin Johnson

Compassion Over Judgment: Veterans' Hidden Battles

Many of Dad’s friends died in Vietnam. The ones who returned turned to alcohol and heroin abuse. He used to drive me through Dexter and Linwood as well as west 7 mile and teach me to never ever judge any man for falling victim to vices. Have compassion. You don’t know what horrors men have been through and sometimes; they’re doing the absolute best they can to cope with a world, and a society that failed them.