531 Quotes About Ptsd

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.

The only thing war will ever do (and do well), is decrease the world’s population of young men.

Sorrow is also a terrible weapon of destruction, one that kills from the inside out.

The one certain thing In the Army is – nothing is ever certain.

In Vietnam, particularly in the boonies, you are your brother’s keeper – and he yours.

You come from a nice home and family and had a comfortable life. You had a nice warm, dry bed to crawl into every night and the last thing on your mind was being bombed, rocketed, mortared or generally physically endangered.

That shot helped to fracture the chain of command within the enemy ranks and signaled the beginning of the end for the ambush. He gave his life to help others live…. that’s a hero.

The war draws you into it and changes you forever. That’s what war does best.

Given the profound alienation of modern society, when combat vets say that they miss the war, they might be having an entirely healthy response to life back home. Iroquois warriors did not have to struggle with that sort of alienation because warfare and society existed in such close proximity that there was effectively no transition from one to the other.