“With every door closed to them, Vietnam veterans shut up, swallowing the shame of a nation. They attempted to slot back into their old lives the way society expected, but they weren’t the same men, and the holes they had left behind didn’t fit them any more.”
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Enemy: A True Story of Courage, Childhood Trauma and the Cost of War
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