“There is a core of anger in the soul of almost every veteran, and we are justified in calling it bitterness, but the bitterness of one man is not the same thing as the bitterness of another. In one man it becomes a consuming flame that sears his soul and burns his body. In another it is barely traceable. It leads one man to outbursts of temper, another to social radicalism, a third to excesses of conservatism.”
Willard Waller, a World War I veteran, from his book “Veteran Comes Back,” published in 1944. It bears mentioning that the conditions described here touch women and men alike in today’s military.
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