The Artilleryman's Vision Comments

This is one of the earliest and certainly one of the most accurate and chillingly moving depictions of the effects of what today we call PTSD. As a veteran myself, I can't read it without a slight shiver running down my spine. Though never as wrenchingly effected as the protagonist, I can still empathize and recognize the mixed emotions towards the maelstrom of combat his unbidden memories evoke.