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<p>[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3519510, member: 57463"]Easy explanation is he just kept quiet on the "loose lips" theory: it was none of your business. But as he told his wife and no one else, he probably felt guilty. It is not unusual. <b>"[Audie Murphy's] first wife, Dixie Wanda Hendrix, claimed he once held her at gunpoint. She witnessed her husband being guilt-ridden and tearful over newsreel footage of German war orphans." -- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy</a></b></p><p><br /></p><p>We did not know about PTSD or how to address it or treat it. Ever see the movie, <i>The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit </i>? The author, Sloan Wilson served in WWII. In the movie (I have not read the book), the hero is plagued by what we know as PTSD and his wife just tells him to get a grip and get over it.</p><p><br /></p><p>My brother's father-in-law was at Normandy Beach. He finally talked about it during his last days. My father was wounded in Korea (after the armistice; shot by a sniper while patrolling the DMZ), but my younger half-brother had no idea. Dad did another 18 years in the National Guard, but never said much at home about Korea. Just sayin'.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kaparthy, post: 3519510, member: 57463"]Easy explanation is he just kept quiet on the "loose lips" theory: it was none of your business. But as he told his wife and no one else, he probably felt guilty. It is not unusual. [B]"[Audie Murphy's] first wife, Dixie Wanda Hendrix, claimed he once held her at gunpoint. She witnessed her husband being guilt-ridden and tearful over newsreel footage of German war orphans." -- [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audie_Murphy[/url][/B] We did not know about PTSD or how to address it or treat it. Ever see the movie, [I]The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit [/I]? The author, Sloan Wilson served in WWII. In the movie (I have not read the book), the hero is plagued by what we know as PTSD and his wife just tells him to get a grip and get over it. My brother's father-in-law was at Normandy Beach. He finally talked about it during his last days. My father was wounded in Korea (after the armistice; shot by a sniper while patrolling the DMZ), but my younger half-brother had no idea. Dad did another 18 years in the National Guard, but never said much at home about Korea. Just sayin'.[/QUOTE]
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