Its Living Ghost

Looking back a bit, I was impressed again with the natural human tendency to remember significant events in terms of beginnings and endings.

We have just recently passed the 57th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War and the 54th of the cease fire. I wonder sometimes why it is that we do not seek to remember the “awesome days”, those days when nothing happened other than just another monotonous and frightening day in the middle of a year-or-more of such days.

James Hillman, no stranger to war, wrote in 2004 in his book A Terrible Love of War, “Peace for veterans is not an ‘absence of war’ but its living ghost in the bedroom, at the lunch counter, on the highway. The trauma is not ‘post’ but acutely present.”

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Senior Fellow, Paul M. Edwards