Chapter 3 Analysis
In chapter 3 Junger starts off by talking about how vets come home with missing the war and is feeling alienated from the normal world. On page 77 he says " War also inspires ancient human virtues of courage, loyalty, and selflessness that can be utterly intoxicating to people who have experience them." in this quote I feel like he's saying that in war the men and women who are deployed, gain courage from severing their country and loyalty to their unit that they are with and the selfishness that he talks about is how they will do anything for their country and their war buddies. He then switches the topic about how they have PTSD from their trauma combined with the closeness they miss from war. He then switches to the topic of how some veterans are faking being mentally scared from war only to get a check from the government.The vets that are suffering PTSD and are looking for help but are either to scared to get it or they are scared that they will lash out on the vets who are milking the system claiming that they are suffering but in reality they're only their to get 100% mentally disable to get a tax free check of 3,000$ from the government. He gives a statistic that the US military has the highest rate of PTSD in the history of its existence. (pg.88) Going back to page 80 he compares PTSD and Rape, in this comparison he says that rape is far more traumatic than anyone that has been deployed, but rape victims and survivors PTSD goes down way faster and more significantly that a war vet. This reason is because war vets have positive experiences while in the war like the close friends that they have and the good times they have while being deployed, while rape victims only have negative experiences.