VaughanJB
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He worked his whole life supporting our family. He lived a long happy life. No PTSD, brokenness, etc., etc. From my life experience, few who fought in WWII and Korea came home damaged. Many were wounded, but they healed as best they could and got on with their lives putting the past behind them.
Your father was lucky. It's estimated 10% of soldiers in World War II came back with PTSD. Those wounded had horrific injuries. I think it's difficult to simply say "got on with their lives putting the past behind them" when you've no idea of what's going on inside their heads.
Of course, we accept and talk about this type of thing a whole lot more. But the fact is, stats show that since 9/11, 7000 or so armed forces personnel have been killed in combat. The number of suicides for armed personnel in the same period? 30,000.