blog post #2- Combat Trauma

Throughout the book "Combat Trauma", there is not a specific character that is focused on, in this book they focus more on multiple points of view of different soldiers that have experienced different things.  Some people who talk about their trauma they go through every day are John Adame: who was a radio operator in E/3/60th Infantry, Terry Gander: who served as a rifleman in B/3/60th Infantry, John Iannucci: who served as a rifleman in B/3/60th Infantry, James D. Johnson: who spent 20 years in the army, and then was a therapist/pastoral counselor for fifteen years, and so much more.
These combat veterans served for our country and experience flashbacks everyday of what they consider "hell".  They explain their stories of what they saw, what they did, and how they survived.  They all talk about their stories of combat and what they tried to do to keep their minds off of what they witnessed.  They also talk about why they retired from their career after the war, a phrase they used a lot in this section was "did what I could until I blew up".  Which means they accomplished what they could before they couldn't deal with the combat trauma anymore, everything kept on reminding them of war and would go back to the day that has been kept in their minds for 40+ years and "blow up".