Abstract
The country was raucous with Victory Parades—a cacophony of sirens, horns, bells, cheering, screaming, tears, and John Philip Sousa's best music blaring from the local band. All was not well, however, in the America of 1918. Victory had been achieved in Europe, and the United States military had proved itselfto the world, but the silent costs of the Great War were only beginning to be tabulated. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) was not available as a diagnosis for the shocking set of symptoms displayed by so many men coming home from foreign combat, yet it was a real growing problem.
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