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7. The dying brain lets go with a lot of suppressed stuff

Sun Oct 26, 2014, 04:30 PM

Oct 2014

When my wife's dad was slipping away, he started calling out to long-dead members of his unit in WWII to warn them of incoming artillery shells, one of which blasted half his leg off (gangrene took the rest of it).

When he was still all there, he NEVER talked about his war experience except to say that it was so unbelievably horrible, he hoped all his grandchildren were girls so they would never have to serve in the military (and he got his wish).

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Death of an uncle [View all] Ron Obvious Oct 2014 OP

OK, so... pipi_k Oct 2014 #1

It's a nice thought anyway.... Ron Obvious Oct 2014 #5

My last uncle died almost two years ago Jenoch Oct 2014 #2

I know it's strange to theorize this... MrMickeysMom Oct 2014 #3

that's what i thought when i read this. he saw her--she was there, and he was overcome orleans Oct 2014 #4

That never even occurred to me! Ron Obvious Oct 2014 #6

The dying brain lets go with a lot of suppressed stuff DFW Oct 2014 #7

My father was the same Ron Obvious Oct 2014 #8

Suppression of war experience was the norm before Vietnam pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #9

Sometime can you reveal it? MrMickeysMom Oct 2014 #11

It's no big deal, really pinboy3niner Oct 2014 #12

Jeez. I hope his wife didn't hear that. PassingFair Oct 2014 #10

Ron Obvious said she had already died, thank goodness. n/t CaliforniaPeggy Oct 2014 #13