See Siegfried Sassoon’s Survivors, written at Craiglockhart in October, 1917:
No doubt they’ll soon get well; the shock and strain
Have caused their stammering, disconnected talk.
Of course they’re ‘longing to go out again,’ —
These boys with old, scared faces, learning to walk.
They’ll soon forget their haunted nights; their cowed
Subjection to the ghosts of friends who died,—
Their dreams that drip with murder; and they’ll be proud
Of glorious war that shatter’d all their pride…
Men who went out to battle, grim and glad;
Children, with eyes that hate you, broken and mad.
See also his Finished with War: A Soldier’s Declaration.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Good to read this, I’m interested to see a mention of “Neurasthenia”, I first heard of that now unused phrase when I was reading “Aesthetics and Anaesthetics” by Susan Buck Morss in ‘October’ — which is still a fantastic read.
Why is it so hard for the war monger’s to accept that war is bad for people, from Neurasthenia to Shell Shock to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
What a SPECTACULAR use of words. Thank you.
wow. f’in strong…
Check this one out, too, written by A.E. Roman.