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Originally Posted by graciegirl
There is a broad spectrum of retirees here, many who have seen some really overwhelming and awful sides of the human condition.
What professions would be the worst as far as seeing awful and shocking realities of our times?
Social work, law enforcement, medicine, teaching?
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I do wonder, graciegirl, where you get ideas for a thread like this?
I had an uncle who was a scout in WWII in Italy in 1943
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian...(World_War_II) and who got hit with a tank tree burst which caused him to lose an arm, a leg, and a good part of his skull. He lived but only he and one of his fellow squad member's survived this. Of course, WWII was over for him. He had a great life as a small town hero of Itasca, Illinois. Until that is, dementia started and he began reliving his war days over and over as if it all was happening again. A lot of this was because of his head wound caused by the Panzer tank tree burst. It hits up high and sends shrapnel down onto troops as well as parts of trees like wood shards and caused horrific wounds.
I had been taking care of him before they got him into a nursing home back in 1994 in Itasca. Other times, he would relive more pleasant memories as if they were taking place right then and start having conversations with people from long ago and even naked Indians which he probably saw on some Western in the 1940s.
A lot of our troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan are experiencing similar trauma from IEDs. Of course, there are probably a lot more soldiers and others who never see the front lines and are never anywhere near IED explosions.
There are probably also soldiers who enjoy war, killing, violence and other aspects of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Kind of hard to generalize about various professions.