[rellimpank]

--almost exactly the same situation with my graddad, who undoubtedly suffered from what is now called PTSD-

-tipped over into insanity when my uncle enlisted after Pearl Harbor-- Granddad spent the rest of his life iin aVA hospital---

[sargon]

I still have my Great Grandfather's WWI uniform and mustard gas mask. He was a Corporal in the 5th Division (red Diamond), in a (heavy) Machine Gun Battalion. One of the companies in his regiment is thought to have possibly taken down the Red Baron with ground fire.

Corporal George Washington Cummings never said one word about WWI, and nobody ever pressed him. But he did his duty in France (Meuse-Argonne and St. Mihiel) and then in the postwar occupation.

I never was able to figure out whether he was using the old French heavy machine guns (Vickers water-cooled) or whether he later employed the "new" Browning M2. I need to do some more research on that point...