Perhaps better if he was one of the dead. My uncle came back from that war an irritable man. He was a miser after losing all his money in the submarket in 1929, collecting coins. When my hand had him put away in a veterans home when he became abusive, she cashed in the coin collections for her and the three kids to get a college education and her retirement.
PTSD is a huge problem. All I have read and learned it seems like pets help the most. Labs rule because they have the right temperament and patience. Humans usually screw things up. Amen
The poetry and novels of WWI break my heart every time. There was such foolish bravado in going and unspeakable horror in the trenches. I guess that is true of every war. WWI is emblematic of all of them. A brave, sad write.
Mushroom Cloud, a fact-based historical novel, is the first book of The First Strike Trilogy: USA and the Soviet Union are building nuclear arms for a face off in a potential nuclear war in the late 1950's and early 1960's.
Armageddon, a fact-based historical novel, is the third book of The First Strike Trilogy: A high-stakes race against time and politics unfolds in this gripping historical account of SIOP-62, revisit the tension of a pending nuclear attack, at a time
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