I started watching this yesterday and finished today, March 9, 2024. Very important topics. My father married my mother after he graduated from Officer Candidate School and while he was in tank school. He went off to fight in Italy and was wounded at Anzio. He survived the war. My parents began making a family. I was the second of four boys. Around the time that I was nine years old in the fourth grade, the impact of the war began to take its toll on our family. My father’s mental health deteriorated, he no longer worked, my mother who had a high school education had to figure out how to hold the family together. Daddy was in the mental section of a veterans hospital receiving electroshock therapy. As difficult as this was, it is incomparable to women veterans coming home. Excellent that this conversation is taking place. For my father, there were no conversations. We children were not told anything. Figuring out what to tell the children. How to talk to the children will be hard, but it must be done.
As I am a resident of the United States, I am unable to access the BBC conversation. Perhaps someone will find a way to upload it to RUclips. Thank you all for this.
I started watching this yesterday and finished today, March 9, 2024. Very important topics. My father married my mother after he graduated from Officer Candidate School and while he was in tank school. He went off to fight in Italy and was wounded at Anzio. He survived the war. My parents began making a family. I was the second of four boys. Around the time that I was nine years old in the fourth grade, the impact of the war began to take its toll on our family. My father’s mental health deteriorated, he no longer worked, my mother who had a high school education had to figure out how to hold the family together. Daddy was in the mental section of a veterans hospital receiving electroshock therapy. As difficult as this was, it is incomparable to women veterans coming home. Excellent that this conversation is taking place. For my father, there were no conversations. We children were not told anything. Figuring out what to tell the children. How to talk to the children will be hard, but it must be done.
As I am a resident of the United States, I am unable to access the BBC conversation. Perhaps someone will find a way to upload it to RUclips. Thank you all for this.