I'm not sure if we agree or not.
It's not what happened to you, it's how you see what happened to you.
Your perception can change and of course perceptions of the same incident differ anyway. Care has improved but severe trauma is just as hard to deal with as shell shock was.
A very common "belief", even amongst dreadfully injured servicemen is that they should have died instead of their mates. That's a bastard to shift because it's all in the training.
Ongoing care is often needed but up until recently the army specialist hospitals would sign off a traumatised patient simply because his service had come to an end.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Tue 21 May 2013, 16:58, 1 reply)

OK.
My original point was: It is kind of naive to think a soldier you meet in the early stages of care after a war injury is happy about everything.

So I think we agree.
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I don't

( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Tue 21 May 2013, 23:14, closed)

Ok, so I have no idea what you're saying,
but I'm not really interested anyway.
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