![]() In The Great War, “shell shock”, utterly misunderstood, was a shameful thing, and it had been just long enough since the Spanish American War for all but its survivors to have forgotten veterans don’t leave just leave their war on the battlefields. Those that the war didn’t kill, found that Fate wasn’t done playing with them after all, as, their bodies made so vulnerable, so many sickened and far too many of those died of the Spanish Influenza. Field stripping their weapons, time and again. In between, the hurry up and wait of almost everything but battle in the military. Their minds were flooded over and over again with all the the hormones the body produces to get us through crisis. Surviving those horrors, what it took from them to do so. LaurieRose - I’m assuming based on when Eliot write it, 1925, that it has to do with the men who made it home from The Great War (WWI). ![]() Gathered on this beach of the tumid river With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom ![]() Shape without form, shade without colour, ![]()
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