A Soldier's Post-Traumatic Stress Divided

Have you ever decided to go to war? If so, would you believe that you would return back home as a whole, the same way you joined the battlefield? Do you know the consequences that you will be risking? Many soldiers who joined the army and fought in a battlefield have been badly affected. Young soldiers end up suffering. Soldiers get physically, mentally or emotionally affected from the war they were involved in. The most common affected issue that soldiers end up having is called “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder”. However, there are many soldiers who join a battlefield and come back home healthy, some come back with a health related issue or further worst, never made it home because they lost their own lives. It is known that a soldier who returns
The poem starts with a man at the park sitting in his wheelchair in the cold as he waits for it to get dark. In lines 3-5 of the poem, this man is at the park hearing voices of boys and voices of playful youngsters which made him reminisce about the devastating war he went through and then about the good old day before he had lost his legs. He remembered the time how women use to look at him and how flirtatious they were with him before he had lost both of his legs. But now that he was legless he realized that women would pay no mind to him like they did before. He knew that women and other people felt bad for him now. The people he was surrounded with treated him like some queer disease. The way people have looked and treated him made him feel upset and feel regret of ever going to war. He thought that he was going to return from the war with many medals achieved and that the people would be so happy to see him from his return because he was a great hero but unfortunately, that was not the case. Unfortunately, he notices that back from his return, instead of people celebrating his heroism and appreciating his contribution to the war, the people seemed sorry for him by the looks in their faces; this made him feel pathetic an
He mentions that approximately "sixty thousand men lost their lives or were injured on the first day alone." As you can see many men who went to war have been injured during World War I. Many men have also joined the military at a very young age like the soldier from "Disabled.” Wilfred also mentioned in his poem that the soldier who returned from World War 1 with no legs joined the army at a very young age, at the age of 19. However, other soldiers who have joined the army were 17 years of age as Boyd explained in his essay based on the Great