I watched my friend, a WWII vet live on the battlefield years after the war was over. The too real nightmares never left him and his life never got beyond the horrors of the battlefield. He was a mechanic and worked on the tanks. He told me that usually when a problem arose, it was bodies stuck in the tracks jamming things up. He had to pull them out to get the thing working again. This time of the year, we're told to remember those who gave their lives. My friend me aware there are many living dead--men and women that never moved beyond the war and what they experienced.
How sad to have done the job and won the freedom for your country and never truly experience the joy.
These casualties of war need to be remembered and comforted as much as those who died and those left to grieve.
ReplyDeleteThanks for this reminder.