Comments on: Book on World War II Sheds Light on Combat Stress https://dev.americacomesalive.com/book-world-war-ii-sheds-light-combat-stress/ Quick Takes and Popular Postings about America's Past Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:55:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Kate Kelly https://dev.americacomesalive.com/book-world-war-ii-sheds-light-combat-stress/#comment-337778 Sat, 03 Mar 2018 20:24:17 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=6014#comment-337778 In reply to Vishal Bondwal.

I’m glad you found the information helpful.
Kate

]]> By: Vishal Bondwal https://dev.americacomesalive.com/book-world-war-ii-sheds-light-combat-stress/#comment-337740 Sat, 03 Mar 2018 10:15:10 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=6014#comment-337740 Thank you.

]]> By: Kate Kelly https://dev.americacomesalive.com/book-world-war-ii-sheds-light-combat-stress/#comment-218515 Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:56:17 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=6014#comment-218515 Thank you for posting.

]]> By: Kate Kelly https://dev.americacomesalive.com/book-world-war-ii-sheds-light-combat-stress/#comment-215174 Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:05:57 +0000 http://americacomesalive.com/?p=6014#comment-215174 Shortly after I wrote the article, I heard by direct email from Patience Mason. She has given permission for me to reprint what she wrote: “Thanks for writing about Carol Vento’s book. It is a great book and needed to be written before! My dad was a surgeon in WWII and was affected. I am the wife of a Vietnam vet who came home with PTSD when it was not supposed to exist.”

Patience and her husband both wrote books. Patience’s book, Recovering from the War, was for spouses of Vietnam vets and it has helped vets and other trauma survivors too (Viking/Penguin 1990, Patience Press 1998) and is still in print. Her husband, Robert Mason, wrote a memoir of his tour, Chickenhawk, Viking 1983, still in print.

When I thanked her for these resources she noted that she has more on her website, and they are free: http://www.patiencepress.com/patience_press/Welcome.html. After her book came out she wrote books for kids whose parents had PTSD, a series of pamphlets for spouses of vets and vets themselves which the VA’s used to use and for 7 years she maintained a newsletter, The Post-Traumatic Gazette.

Patience adds “One of my happiest moments was when a VA therapist wrote me that her WWII veterans had their first good Christmas since WWII after reading ‘PTSD and Holidays’ in one of the Gazettes.”

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