Fighting Hard Battles by Alan Johnson




Written by Alan Johnson

My uncle moved in with us when I was 6 years old. He had returned from WWII and had been in a hospital in the USA before moving in with us. He had what they called �shell shock.� Today I think they might be using the term PTSD or trauma. I had heard why he moved in with when I was much older. He had been in D-Day, the invasion of Omaha Beach. But even in his 90�s

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