MrScorpio
The story he is telling, is more or less the same as many other soldiers - from other wars have told when they came back to "normality" and had to adjust to a more normal form of life.... I did had a few familiy members who had been fighting back in WW2 - in Europe - and even thought they never really told about how bad things was in that war - from the little they told - I got the idea about how bad it really was then.. And of course I do rembember the times when my foster father - had really problems sleeping - it often happened when it was a big aniversity for the end of the war - I believe my first experience with his problems was when it was 40 year since World War Two ended - he had a few weeks where he had trouble sleeping - and when he slept, it was not any pleasure dreams he had - from what I gathered it was horrible dreams about wars - and the devastating it had on people who had to fight in the war... And my fostefather was a young man when the war started here in Norway - but he had to leave - the germans had a prise on his head - and he was not back home, before he was a grown man - with a lot of baggage from the years in trying to defeat the germans.. And for some reason he had real troubles trusting any germans -who roughly was on his own age group... As he once said it - this could be the hand who was killing children by trowing their head against a brick wall - or sending woman, and children to their death in gas shambers...
He had many more bad dreams - nightmares i you want - in reality it was flashback to the time when Europe indeed was a dark place to be - but at the age of 83 he finally got peace, as he died. But even as he was there, in hospital - he believed that he was back in WW2 - and that Gestapo was waiting in the other room - ready to get him.. He even tried to convince my foster mother to get some sheets - to do a makeshift lather - to make him out of the hospital room.. The problem was that it was at 6th floor above the ground - and I doubt the sheets would have hold him... But my foster mother who had been in this situation before -managed to calm the old man down - and he walked into the night in peace.... Hopefully in peace with himself in the end...
But by the way - 3 weeks after he was buried - it was a horrible thunderstorm over most of the area - and my foster brother kind of stated "Oh, he have getting there - he have started augmenting already" - He was rather known from making some rather interesting arguments my dear fosterfather... He could be as stubborn as they come - but if you stated YOUR case - he might as well be in agreement with you - in the end...
Diclotican
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