I've always found the whole post-war depression syndrome thing to be pretty interesting. Not interesting in a good way, but interesting in a bad way. If that makes sense. I have a connection to it through my cousin, who is on his second deployment to Iraq as a helicopter pilot. I talked to him when he was back from his first deployment, and he was having a little bit of trouble; not anything close to what Henry goes through in The Red Convertible, but he said it was a little hard to get used to every day life again. I just can't imagine it personally, being over at war and having to constantly be on edge and watching your back and then coming back home to safety and trying to relax. It would just be weird.
The story also reminded me a lot of the movie The Hurt Locker. In the movie the main character comes back to America after being in Iraq, and there is one scene that really sticks out to show the trouble he has. He is in a grocery store, and he can't decide what cereal to pick out. It sounds meaningless, but he's been so used to taking orders all the time while he was at war and so used to making life or death decisions in the blink of an eye, and then he comes back and can't even make the simple decision on what kind of cereal to buy, because it all seems so useless.
This story was interesting because it really showed the problems that people go through when they get back from war and try to lead a normal life. I enjoyed it.
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