Thank you Chainmail.
I was about to send them a reply similar to yours.
I served 24 months in combat in Vietnam. I never experienced shell shock, but I saw some of my buddies come back with it. It’s odd, the event I think about the most was during a firefight when I shot a young VC woman, took away her AK47 and then got her to a MASH so that she wouldn’t die. People who’ve never been in combat cannot possibly know what it’s like.
Welcome home, buddy. It’s funny to read posts from some of our fellow Freepers implying that we are “wusses” because some of us came back with the flinches.
Love to put them through 24 hours of the real thing and see how they’d do.