http://www.humorlessbitch.com/2009/06/happy-fathers-day.html/ just another wordpress weblog? yeah, right. sure. fine. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:02:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.humorlessbitch.com/2009/06/happy-fathers-day.html/#comment-71 Tom Clark Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:21:19 +0000 http://www.humorlessbitch.com/?p=2561#comment-71 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. 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.

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