Hello, BOB;

01 Dec 04 05:23, BOB KLAHN wrote to ROBERT BULL:

 BK>  I think you may find a great many of those who went for that
 BK>  were not actually special forces, or any kind of Vietnam Vet.
 BK>  There were a lot of phonies.

Hmmm...  might not have been phonies so much as too much affected by the 
brutalities of war...

 BK>  Vietnam vets, and Vietnam era vets have an overall better
 BK>  success rate in our society than the average person.

Pity Kerry didn't have an even better one  :-)

 BK>  Some strange things indeed. OTOH, I have found that's not
 BK>  unusual for veterans of any war.

I think you're right.  The First World War created an awful lot of
"mental" 
casualties.  They even invented a now-obsolete medical condition, 
"neurasthaenia," to describe it.

     Regards,

              Robert.

Just finished:  KING'S DRAGON  by  Kate Elliott
     A surprisingly good pseudo-mediaeval fantasy

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