" . . . fear is squeezed out because of lack of space, that slow-motion sense that comes with peril is so vast and can no longer be grasped and so, however briefly, it fades from consciousness. It is the drug of the combat zone. (142)"
From Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
by Charles Bowden
"Fear actually can become much more of a problem for a warrior after coming home that it is in the war zone. The fear signal, which becomes almost a sixth sense in the combat environment, and which the warrior learns to trust implicitly for survival, can remain on high alert back home, where there is no longer the same need for it. . . . In the military, terms like fear and helplessness mean very different things than they do in civilian environments. (26)"
From Once a Warrior Always A Warrior
by Charles W. Hogue, MD, Colonel (Ret.), U.S. Army
From Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Familyby Charles Bowden
"Fear actually can become much more of a problem for a warrior after coming home that it is in the war zone. The fear signal, which becomes almost a sixth sense in the combat environment, and which the warrior learns to trust implicitly for survival, can remain on high alert back home, where there is no longer the same need for it. . . . In the military, terms like fear and helplessness mean very different things than they do in civilian environments. (26)"
by Charles W. Hogue, MD, Colonel (Ret.), U.S. Army
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