The main job of military psychiatry is to return partially broken men to senseless wars, and to release completely broken men back into society, where they fester in misery for decades, no longer able to have any approximation of healthy relationships …
This makes me wonder about those of us who were fathered by The Greatest Generation, or un-fathered, as the case may be … as well as, I suppose, whether my definition of Men ought to undergo some modification …
Naw.
link: Tom Clark
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My father was a greatest generation father, for sure, and then some. As a teenager he was in the trenches for 3 years in World War I, as an medic and ambulance driver; and then he was in World War II, all through the North African and Italian campaigns, for another 3 years. He was a fine father and showed no signs of PTSD, but I say that retrospectively, because he died in 1951. No doubt his heart trouble,diagnosed before he went off to war, was exacerbated by 3 years of warfare. Like most men exposed to the horrors of war, he rarely talked about it.