[oh8eleven]

You hear a loud noise – usually something that sounds like a shot – and you try to get under something or at least pull your head down into your neck. Happens to all of us and after a while, you’ll quit doing that.
I sincerely appreciate the letter, however, 45 years later I can tell you for a fact that flinching at loud noises does not always go away.
If I come home late at night, and despite living in a very safe neighborhood for 38 years, I sometimes wonder if there's an ambush waiting in the shrubs.

[Chainmail]

"45 years later I can tell you for a fact that flinching at loud noises does not always go away."

Oh, I was just trying to make the guys feel better - I still react very sharply to loud and unexpected noises..."You can take the boy out of the jungle but you can't take the jungle out of the boy"!

Semper Fi, 0811

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