PTSD and the Viet Nam War
My Junior English class is reading The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. The book is a memoir based on his experiences in Viet Nam during the war. Some of the stories within the book are fictional but represent the affect the war had on the young men placed in life-threatening, no-win situations. It would take a very unusual person to return home unscathed by the Viet Nam War. Soldiers returned home injured, even though they weren’t physically wounded, and many developed Post Traumatic Stress …