Pfc. Manning and Why Soldiers "Do" Talk
Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. “All the main nerve trunks are deadened, and out of the battered cortex curious dreamlike thoughts emerge. It is at this time that many men see visions. The eyes fasten on a cloud and the tired brain makes a face of it, or an angel or a demon. And out of the hammered brain strange memories are jolted loose, scenes and words and people forgotten, but stored in the back of the brain…You try to remember what it was like, and you can’t quite manage it. The system provides the shield and then removes the memory…” -John Steinbeck, Why Soldiers Won’t Talk In the military, especially during Basic Training, a trainee quickly learns not to say: “But…
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Pfc. Manning and Why Soldiers "Do" Talk
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