Very interesting. Thanks you guys. (My dad didn't scream at night, but he was also a talker - he'd tell you anything you wanted to know about it, when a lot of guys wouldn't say a word.)
...and may God bless your dad.
I spend a fair amount of time at Walter Reed and with troops who have been deployed (sometimes more than once) but not wounded. One of the things that I find is that these guys do talk, given the right setting. I listen a lot and sometimes throw in an old NYPD street cop story just to hold up my end. I think that it is a good thing for them to get it out. There is no doubt that too many men have paid a lifetime price for keeping this stuff to themselves. That goes for a lot of Cops and FireFighters too.