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The Korean War

Posted on June 12, 2018 by The Twentieth Man

Since 1945 the United States has had, first atomic, then nuclear weapons capability in their arsenal. These weapons have the capacity to level whole cities in a single blast and simply vaporize large populations of people – men, women, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Capitalism, Human Sacrifice, Plain English, Veterans | Tagged "the forgotten war", and our eternal Gratitude, Atomic and Nuclear Weapons, Honor, Respect, Restraint, The Korean War, United States, Veterans, with both hands tied behind their backs | Leave a comment

The Babysitter

Posted on August 27, 2014 by The Twentieth Man

My father worked many years at a factory on the Second Shift. Because of his schedule, when I was awake he was usually asleep. When he was at work or awake and puttering about the house afterwards I was … Continue reading →

Posted in Dirty Words, Human Sacrifice, Humor, Mass Media, Observations, Personal History, Veterans | Tagged Advertising, Babysitter, Boris Carloff, Brother, Buying the Farm, Childhood, Family, Father, Flying, Life, Love, Movies, Shock Theatre, Siblings, Social Security, Sugar Jets Cereal, Surrogate Father, Television, Television Commercials, The 20th Century, The Advisor, The Aggressors, The Fifties, The Great Depression, The Industrial Revolution, The Korean War, The Mummy, U. S. Army, War, World War I, World War II | 1 Comment

The Hyphen War

Posted on June 5, 2014 by The Twentieth Man

The psychological disorder and descriptive diagnosis of PTSD has undergone a gradual evolutionary change of labels over time but it is still essentially the same disorder; it’s still the same disease. Variously named, PTSD was called: Shell Shock (in World … Continue reading →

Posted in Dirty Words, Government, Human Sacrifice, Humor, Mass Media, Observations, Politics, PTSD, Veterans | Tagged "The United States of America", american psychiatric association, APA, Battle Fatigue, British, Department of Veterans Affairs, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-Fourth Edition, diagram a sentence, DSM-IV, DVA, General Sherman, Government, Grammar, Horror, Humanity, Hyphen, Hyphenation, Masters of Understatement, Operational Exhaustion, point-of-view, Politics, Post Traumatic-Stress Disorder, Post Vietnam Syndrome, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, POV, PSD, PTSD, PVS, Shell Shock, Terror, The Korean War, The Powers That Be, The Vietnam War, Truth, VA, Veteran's Administration, War, War is Hell, World War I, World War II | 2 Comments

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