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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 3519618, member: 15588&quot;]I&#039;m not trying to <i>fault</i> him for not talking about his WWII service, I completely understand why he wouldn&#039;t, <i>especially </i>considering his station. Nonetheless, given everything I still regret not being able to talk to him about it, though I realize that likely would not have been possible.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also know the history of the gradual &quot;discovery&quot; of PTSD. Numerous heartbreaking films exist of WWII soldiers being interviewed by military psychiatrists after the war and they exude this very deep melancholy that they don&#039;t understand. Some just sit there silent, some shaking, some weeping. Some talk teary-eyed about their families and &quot;sweethearts.&quot; It&#039;s difficult to watch. Paul Fussell spoke about the difficulty of transitioning to civilian life from wartime. He said that he had trouble remembering that he couldn&#039;t just split someone&#039;s skull with a rifle butt if he sensed that they were a threat. It apparently took him a while to calm some inner beast from the front.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t begin to image what people went through. I&#039;ve experienced nothing even close to it in my lifetime. I hope that humanity never again sees war on that scale.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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