Posted by Brigadier General Loree K. Sutton
, DCoE Director
on December 7, 2009
Sixty-eight years ago today, Pearl Harbor was attacked. The following day President Franklin Roosevelt addressed Congress at 12:30 p.m., for six and a half minutes, and within one hour America entered WWII, “a date which will live in infamy.”
Killing in combat, losing beloved buddies, coming home to a strained or even fractured marriage, experiencing “survivors guilt,” witnessing the death of innocent civilians are timeless challenges known to Warriors of all ages—past, present and future.
Psychological health concerns are not new to our Warriors who have seen combat. Looking back through history, twenty-seven centuries ago in The Iliad, Homer describes the mental stress that occurs as a result of continuous combat as the “betrayal of what is right.” During the American Civil War post traumatic stress was referred to as “soldier’s heart”; in WWI it was known as “shell shock”; and in WWII “battle fatigue.”
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