The Daily Populous Sunday September 21st, 2025 evening edition
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Frequent-Ruin8509 on September 21st, 2025 at 04:11 UTC »

My grandfather fought in the south pacific and Indonesia in ww2, with the 503rd airborne. He Drank heavily when he came home to cope with what he went through. The fact that ptsd wasn't a recognized condition and you were "a pansy" in his day if you admitted you had "shell shock"... of course he was already an Irishman from Chicago before the war so he was alreadya bit of a drinker accordingto grandma...

Admirable_Bell_6254 on September 21st, 2025 at 04:28 UTC »

They called shell shocked and the only thing they had for that was liquor.

justhereformyfetish on September 21st, 2025 at 06:59 UTC »

My grandfather was an army engineer and a boxer that served in north Africa in ww2, helped build the tower at bikini atoll, and got shot by a full spray of bullets in the chest by a machine gun in korea.

Survived and became a truck driver back in the states. Pumped out a bunch of kids and died in his 70s of colon cancer.

He was a man that seemed to acknowledge a divide in his psyche: He stressed that civilian attachment had no place in war, as much as a soldier's disposition has no place back home.

Can't imagine he'd look fondly on the bumper stickers and camo. He always said the most dangerous men from the war don't mention a word about it, they left that shit over there.