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Omaha Steve

(99,573 posts) Sun Dec 7, 2014, 01:55 PM Dec 2014

News Flash Describing the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor (just hit the exact moment 73 years)

Audio: http://media.nara.gov/mopix/audio/ww2/200-54.mp3

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News Flash Describing the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor (just hit the exact moment 73 years) (Original Post) Omaha Steve Dec 2014 OP

My father went to the movies and came out in world war . orpupilofnature57 Dec 2014 #1

My mom's dad came back from WWII...but never came back mentally. Rex Dec 2014 #2

orpupilofnature57

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1. My father went to the movies and came out in world war .

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Sun Dec 7, 2014, 02:07 PM

Dec 2014

Rex

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2. My mom's dad came back from WWII...but never came back mentally.

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Sun Dec 7, 2014, 02:11 PM

Dec 2014

Some big part of him was and always stayed behind fighting that war. He almost lost his life to malaria and a Japanese bayonet. I always wondered as a small boy, what could affect a grown man so much that they didn't 'come home' in some ways.

I have no doubt that he suffered from PTSD.

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