““we are repeatedly told that the veterans of the Second World War did not face such problems. They had fought “the good war,” triumphed, and returned home to a grateful nation, happy, healthy, and well-adjusted. However, this comfortable assumption that “the boys” returned home psychically and emotionally unscathed, that no one drank too much, or abused his wife or children could not be further from the truth. Roughly 1.3 million American service personnel received some kind of psychological wound during World War II. Although””
