Charlie Company Readings

I chose to read the piece, "Lloyd Collins: Death of a Heart." This man's story reminded me of tales my mother would tell me of friends of hers returning from the war. She said some of them were not only unrecognizable by their personalities, but even by their physical appearance. It almost seems as if it would have been worse to have no outwardly obvious wounds from the war, because then everyone assumes nothing is wrong. If a man comes back in a wheel chair, everyone knows something is wrong, and he is given more room to heal, mentally and physically. When there is nothing wrong on the outside, the inside pain just builds up with no outlet. This reading was a nice supplement to the film Coming Home.