by another public servant, a vet who is really under the blackjack with PTSD. Doing their job, in fact ! Just fantastic news that you don't have to worry much about finances, with the option of various allowances for the family, too.
I'm reading a book about WWII by an American historian called Rick Atkinson, and, boy, did those infantrymen go through hell, particularly, in the Ardennes, prior to the Battle of the Bulge ! It was a real meat-grinder, they had such difficulty in finding replacements for the dead and injured, physically and/or mentally that one warrant officer complained that he had had to go behind a hill with one lad, to show him how to load his rifle ! This was on the battle-field, and the rifles were WWI vintage !
By the end of the war the list of acceptable handicaps of recruits, actually makes hilarious reading. 20/20 vision? Nah. One eye was fine ! It had been a joke up until then that they just counted your eyes ! Deaf in one ear was OK, too. Leprosy, malignant tumour, certifiable psychosis were still classified as non acceptable, but with the new drug, penicillin, twelve thousand venereal disease patients were inducted each month !
The book is called, Guns at Last Light. It's so brilliantly written, with so many quotes of the people involved, from privates to generals, I can never put it down when I want to. Everything else I need to do is put back from twenty minutes to three quarters of an hour.
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