[Info-vax] OT actors being treated as their screen character Was: Re: Nice printers for OpenVMS?

[Paul Sture]

On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 14:23:06 +0000, ChrisQ wrote:

> On 08/12/12 11:42, Paul Sture wrote:
> 
>> Our parents generation really did want to forget about it for the most
>> part.
>>
>>
> That's because of the real loss and mental damage experienced by so many
> families.
> 
> There was no concept of ptsd or any of the other ism's in those days to
> help explain the psychological damage and to provide routes for
> recovery. You were just expected to resume normal life as though nothing
> had happened. Thousands of civilised men came back from the war so
> damaged by what they had seen, that they never recovered.
> My father was perhaps one of the more lucky ones, but was always
> reticent about his experiences and would not go into any detail at
> all...

The only time my father talked about it in any detail was when Gulf War 
Syndrome was in the news.  He claimed that he had seen no evidence of any 
such thing in his time but I think selective memory was probably at work.

-- 
Paul Sture