I am reading “Nam Vet” making peace with your past
authored by Chuck Dean.
It’s one of the stats he puts forth in the book.
I am notsure of the info.
The book is fabulous, PTSD is the theme.
Was Chuck Dean the 173rd Airborne commander?
If you can find a copy Eric Maria Remarque who wrote
All quiet on the Western Front about the horror
of WW I. also wrote a companian piece called,
The Road Back. In AQWF the hero paul is killed
just as the war ends, but in TRB he survives the
war and has to go home, all the signs of PTSD are
in this companian story, how he copes and how his
comrades don’t, with the change from front line to
peace. Every example I saw after coming from Nam was
already chronicaled in this book.
Warriors today are not allowed trophies so they take
pictures, the enemy who tried to kill you is dead on
the ground and you are alive so that’s what you take,
so that later you can say, look Hill 3XX there is
smitty and bohunk, that was before smitty got it and
the hunk had his legs blown off after being caught
outside the guntub at Khe San...
A whole nother world.