again, why didn’t we see all these WW2 guys collecting ptsd money.....
maybe they were stronger men back then.
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They had come out of the Depression.
Men were manly to get through that.
My Dad and his local friends were WWII Vets. Never talked about WWII. Could not listen to “White Christmas”. Spooked by loud noises upon returning home.
Pretty much the whole USA was involved and sacrificed in WWII. Not just Special Ops on the news, while welfare raged at home.
So I think they had a ptsd, (maybe called shell shock), and worked through it. Same as the Depression, got to work, eat, care for the family.
Don’t think they had Psychiatrists with grants to invent ‘ptsd, and develop methods and drugs for ptsd. In fact now ptsd infects many citizens who have some sort of rough patch.
That’s the differences I see versus our Vets today.
First, a lot of soldiers were traumatized in previous wars. As someone mentioned, shell shock. In England, if a ver committed suicide, they would say he “died of wounds,” not officially but other vets. They understood.
Also, a lot of times when people committed suicide, it was covered up.
One of my relatives came back from WW2 and touched it out. But he had nightmares several times a week until he died 40 years later, terrible relationships with almost everyone in his family, and a drinking problem.
If you had met him, you would not have thought he had PTSD, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t.