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Thread #35624   Message #489047
Posted By: Jim Dixon
21-Jun-01 - 02:43 PM
Thread Name: Memorial to WWI 'cowards'
Subject: RE: Memorial to WWI 'cowards'
I remember a man who attended my church when I was a kid. He appeared to be severely retarded. My father referred to him as a "boy" although he was probably in his fifties.

I later heard that he had been "shell shocked" in WWI (That was the term they used then for PTSD.) and was consequently lobotomized. I suppose he's dead by now. People like him deserve a memorial, too.