The war was over. Johnny came marching home. This one did anyway.
Celebrate good times. Come on!
“Victory has been won.”
But here comes PTSD…
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I Don't Get It 
I may not be the “expert” Willard Waller is, but he seems to be doing a whole lot of generalizing. I wonder how many Vets agreed with his analysis?
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I’d say not many.
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I guess it depends on what they saw and heard and felt and if they bottle it up inside. But I guess you could never be the same once you see death.
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Great post Kerbey.
Cheers,
Lance
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🙂
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Thank you, Kerbey, for all sides.
Willard Waller, I think, was trying to be sympathetic. Sweeping generalizations have always found their way into confounding problems such as this.
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I imagine Waller was as well. I really am not educated enough to know how affected they are when they return.
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I’ve been so unaffected by wars, folks going off to fight, etc. that it’s good to read these posts. Can’t imagine today’s young folk (or even me) being so patriotic and selfless. Though they weren’t all then either, I suppose. I like my insulated cocoon of a life so much that I don’t think too hard on the ugly stuff 😦
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Me, too. It would be nice to just keep it all in the past and never have any ugliness in the future. I’m a big fan of my cocoon.
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I’ve wired enough outlet boxes to know Reddy doesn’t reside in any of them. I’m greatly disappointed in this realization.
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So it’s a scam?!
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