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My father was a WWII POW VET. He never talked to anyone about the war, except for me alone. Adopted at 11mo I was the youngest, the baby. He told me EVERYTHING starting from my earliest memories. Mama objected but he wanted me to know Incase I ever had to face such challenges I would be strong enough to handle it. I was taught marksmanship, survival techniques and that if ever captured give name rank and serial number ONLY. He was very adamant about the last part. God rest his soul, the strongest kindest most honest man I've ever known. ❤️
Kirk Brown the dreams never go away. There are certain smells and tastes that can cause you to go into kill mode. One loses their soul while in intense combat. The dreams do plague you. Family becomes increasingly intolerant. War is terrible. We should do all we can to avoid it. We need to start putting these big wigs in the front line positions.
One cannot climb the walls of nightmare. One must each night delve down into the underbelly of Hell and sort through the guts and brains of friends and comrades.
My father became physically, and mentally disabled on Omaha Beach, D-Day.. He spent years and years in state hospitals, being treated for the shell shock he had.. He lived to be 85, and died in a state hospital. The last time I saw my dad, was in 1961. My sister and I were hiding under our parents bed, while he was trying to kill us, and our mom. He thought we were Germans, and needed to kill us.. After beating my mom, (to a pulp, almost killing her,) , he looked for us. He couldn't find us, so he got his rifle out, (bad idea for a veteran), and went uprown, Merced, Ca. To find more Germans.. The police found him hiding in a downtown bar, hunkered down,, and crying his eyes out.. All I remember of my dad is that 'hundred yard stare' he had when he looked at any of us. War dosen't hurt just soldiers..
Debra Sparks That must have been sheer terror for you and your family. I'm sure your father seen horrors in bits and bursts between the boredom, unimaginable horrors and on top of that someone is trying to kill you at every turn. I'm sure he loved you all very much. I myself am about to seek treatment for PTSD. You are so right saying that war doesn't just hurt soldiers. I wish you well .
If millions of bombs destroyed the minds of many adults, then these children today are obviously devastated. Their HOME country is being bombed. I'd say its as comparable as it gets, bud.
+alexww180 To be fair modern warfare isnt soldiers bashing their heads in with trench clubs while gas is being deployed on them, modern day wars are usuall engangements fought with a large distance to the enemy and most is suppresive fire to scare em off its not like Call of Duty :D but yes I agree this shows the horrors of wars :/
Can Turkleton Don't watch WW1 films and then think the war was like that, most of engagements in ww1 happened on ranges longer than 300 meters aswell. And tecnology never made warfare a joke, war never changes. www.liveleak.com/view?i=1a4_1422373221
+The Cringe Connoisseur he wasn't deaf that's the point. His brain cut out all noise that was making him worse. It recognised 'Bomb' in an effort to keep him alive.
During those times, death was just a second away for so many, and so many more witnessed their friends LITERALLY turned to red mist by artillery. It was so terrifying, that their brains reverted to a more primitive way of processing information in which anything that wasn't directly related to surviving those horrors got pushed out, and was replaced by raw instinct: 1.listen for incoming bombs. 2.Listen for some one to yell the word "Bomb!". 3.Scurry for ANY tiny bit of cover possible if conditions 1 and 2 are met...thats all those poor fellows we're operating on. Even though it happened over a 100 years ago, my heart still goes out to all the British, French, Germans, etc that had to LIVE like that for 4 years straight.
no well prob die in a nucelear war. I hate how people think were living a threatless paradise. No. Currently there more threats to humanity than there has ever been
My dad's uncle (guess its my grand uncle) fought both WW1 and WW2 in Italy and survived both... my only memory of him is when I was 3 yrs old, in a hospital bed, right before he died, at 98. I still have his officer stars and his magnifier he used to read.
Everyime my grandpa heard someone scream he would get up sleeping or not and look around his house saying ¨I´m coming to you buddy.¨ before he would sit down on the ground and pray.
Absolutely heartbreaking, yet incredible to realize just how far we've come when dealing with the mentally ill and disturbed. Rest in peace, men of WWI.
War is inevitable. The only true way to overcome war is control. Is that the peace we want? Freedom only opens up opportunity for hysteria. This is shown greatly in countries such as Syria, The US and Afghanistan. The more control, the more peace.
theTrexus You’re greatly mistaken. Look at Europe, we have freedom and peace. All you need is functioning societies without insane leaders with delusions of grandeur
This is so tragic. I remember, when I was a child in the early 50s, seeing a man walking along the road normally one minute, and then he would fling himself on the pavement, cover his head with his hands then get up and walk on. Never forgotten it. :/
As a child in the 1960s in Wales an old person escaped from the local old people's home and he was in the lane behind our house feeling his way along the wall shaking and crying out as though bombs were going off. I have never forgotten that old man; trapped in a world of endless war and being constantly bombed and attacked total never ending nightmare for him sadly
... It's horrifying and heartbreaking to see these brave men just broken down like this. War is hell, and World War I was probably the worst hell of any of the wars.
we don't get it now. weapons are more effective now, they kill and don't maim. roughly 70m people died in WWII and around 15-16m died in WWI. Yet it's such a sick thought that more devastation, mental wounds, and all around hell came out of WWI. Sad. I always think around this time of year(Independence Day in the US), that it's a sick irony that we honor our freedom and those who fought/continue to fight for it with explosions. Saddest part of all is the feeling of similarity between right now and a century ago. During and after this war(WWI), there were laws in place against the disfigured from war being on the streets without a prosthetic or a mask to cover the blown apart jaws. Makes me think about civilians and what soldiers fight for. In America we 'support the troops,' but want to make Veterans Affairs a private business. We send care packages from our schools to the fronts and yet we are never asked to care for the ones who come back home wounded emotionally, physically, spiritually. Civilians love war until it's time to clean it up. Sadly, many of these shell shock cases ended in death. Whether by execution, suicide, or events that they couldn't help when they got home. Reminds me of the 22 Veterans a day who kill themselves in America. War is literal hell, but coming home is purgatory.
***** all suicides are bad and all means should be made to prevent all suicides. I'm just always a bit off during the 4th and I didn't mean to attack civilians or make it seem as a 'them/us' situation. I would say that the focus was more on battle fatigue than it was towards suicide. That subject just leads to it and, again, I didn't mean to put civilians on the block or water down the struggle of everyday people. Just a weird time is all.
War will continue to exist as long as lots of people foolishly think it's "absolutely necessary". As long as people reason like scared children and think:"Better to get them before they get us." People see distant threats and cunning politicians play into their fears. It annoys me how easily startled people are over minor things and how quick they are to abandon reason when media scares them with some big words to sell more issues. War must be avoided at any cost and with reason and understanding you're halfway there. Even the most awkward and clumsy diplomatic compromise is preferable to wars where countless of lives are forever shattered. Second: War will exist as long as some people are unfairly treated by others and oppressed by foreign invaders or their local vassals and lackeys being on the payroll of the firstmentioned. This is why it's good to understand the global economy and who controls what and by what means they're willing to maintain their control over that. I boycott all companies who have hired mercenaries to clean out villages and never buy anything from companies who have sweatshops with children working in them. If people just understood what they're sometimes silently participating in or worse condoning, we'd solve 90% of the world's conflicts right there. A hundred years ago people were so indoctrinated in nationalistic propaganda they willingly signed on to industrial slaughter of millions just because it was "glorious" and "noble" to die (and kill) for your country, your king/emperor or your God. The last reason is particularly absurd but usually explained with "We know we're one the good and righteous side..." War shouldn't exist. I agree. But as long as people are stupid and ignorant and narrowminded and can't see anything from any other perspective than their own wars will exist. In the end people themselves are ultimately to blame for both choosing and listening to warmongers and sneaky politicians grooming them into becoming whores of war and "state mercenaries". Historians have concluded World War One was unavoidable. The mindset of the people back then and the never before seen arms race made a global conflict guaranteed. Hopefully people aren't equally driven by jingoism and petty nationalism today. Better solve their differences with online war games. Nobody has to die.
epic_El if war didn't exist how would theelote dispose of the lower classes of people? I watched a documentary on how in WW2 all the German V rockets were aimed at the ghettos of Britain. Its sad that a group of people use war for financial gain and population control!
I'm 17 years old myself and it really puts it in perspective for just how much these men went through, im sat here now in perfect comfort and warmth all thanks to him and many others that were the exact same age as me having to be exposed to so much death and trauma
you can only barely imagine what kinds of horror these men mustve witnessed with their eyes, and the degree of fear and carnage they mustve felt, and experienced to have their minds and bodies become so twisted and transformed.. that war mustve been like a hell we could never have possibly imagined..
Gabriel Garcia Exactly so who are we to judge any soldier who was part of this filthy brutal hell of a war? People saying some men faked illness to get out of the war well if you'd seen what they had, I'd be running too. The nightmares would never leave your memory
greg raines "Death oh yes, oh yes... It was the first time I'd ever seen death" those words.... A living hell on earth for these men. Yes indeed a miracle these men not only lived through this hell but survived to talk about it....
It bothers me how these men whom fought for their countries gets "mocked" and made fun at for almost dying to protect them, these men were brave enough to lay in a trench for weeks if not months getting bombarded with gasses, shells and deaths all around them... It's disgusting how humanity reacts to such things and how we talk down on people that are just like us, we all have the same amount of chromosomes dont we?
sonny lee~ We Viet Nam veterans are not alone Sonny but, did you return home to the young protesters jumping in your face and, accusing you of things 'they' learned on the nightly news and professors? How do you think the following developed? ~ You asked. ~ I consider the following MYTHS to be a mockery of the American GI. *Myth: Common belief is that a disproportionate number of blacks were killed in the Vietnam War. Fact: 86% of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasians, 12.5%... were black, 1.2% were other races. Sociologists Charles C. Moskos and John Sibley Butler, in their recently published book "All That We Can Be," said they analyzed the claim that blacks were used like cannon fodder during Vietnam "and can report definitely that this charge is untrue. Black fatalities amounted to 12 percent of all Americans killed in Southeast Asia, a figure proportional to the number of blacks in the U.S. population at the time and slightly lower than the proportion of blacks in the Army at the close of the war." *Myth: The common belief is that the domino theory was proved false. Fact: The domino theory was accurate. The ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand stayed free of Communism because of the U.S. commitment to Vietnam. The Indonesians threw the Soviets out in 1966 because of America's commitment in Vietnam. Without that commitment, Communism would have swept all the way to the Malacca Straits that is south of Singapore and of great strategic importance to the free world. If you ask people who live in these countries that won the war in Vietnam, they have a different opinion from the American news media. The Vietnam War was the turning point for Communism. *Myth: The common belief is that the fighting in Vietnam was not as intense as in World War II. Fact: The average infantryman in the South Pacific during World War II saw about 40 days of combat in four years. The average infantryman in Vietnam saw about 240 days of combat in one year thanks to the mobility of the helicopter. One out of every 10 Americans who served in Vietnam was a casualty. 58,148 were killed and 304,000 wounded out of 2.7 million who served. Although the percent that died is similar to other wars, amputations or crippling wounds were 300 percent higher than in World War II. 75,000 Vietnam veterans are severely disabled. MEDEVAC helicopters flew nearly 500,000 missions. Over 900,000 patients were airlifted (nearly half were American). The average time lapse between wounding to hospitalization was less than one hour. As a result, less than one percent of all Americans wounded, who survived the first 24 hours, died. The helicopter provided unprecedented mobility. Without the helicopter it would have taken three times as many troops to secure the 800 mile border with Cambodia and Laos (the politicians thought the Geneva Conventions of 1954 and the Geneva Accords or 1962 would secure the border). **I share this for the sake of truth but, have no doubt, I will always revere my Father's generation; the greatest generation of all. THE AMERICAN FIGHTING MAN WILL NEVER BE MATCHED IN MY HOME.
the ones they have on here are the tamer of videos of men who were filmed many of them catatonic until the day that they died their arms and legs not under their control. It's always the common man who dies and the politician who profits.
That's a complete myth. A good portion of the first onto the battlefield and the first to die were upper class young children who joined the war. Even the older upper class soldiers were equally susceptible to being shot down in a trench raid, or in general during later halves of the war.
My dad was a tailgunner in WWII. He had a breakdown and refused to fly another mission. So they gave him a desk job. Someone suggested to me he was a coward. I certainly don't think so.
Our Atoms come from star stuff. not only we apart of the Universe. But the Universe is in us. ee all brotgers and sisters. But turns out murder makes the world go around. bad news for us my brother
i believe the Great war had to literally be hell on earth for these men. No human should endure that much murder and death. This would drive a sane man insane.
they call them heroes, but these generation was very much exploited by politicians and military leaders. the political and military leaders did not care about human lifes at all altough they could finish the war earlier but they wanted unconditional surrender. There was chnace to finish it 1915,1916,1917 but allies did not want to finish the war. than the unfair versailles treaty caused the 2nd war.
you can read war diaries of foot solders from every side: they did not want to be murderers but did not have any other choice. several times they said they did not have any problem with soldiers of the other side, did not know them and did not want to kill them. all of them suffered PTSD like soldiers of today. and nowadays? war propaganda is still strong and able to convince people to kill eachother for whatever stupid reason.
My heart weeps when I see these poor souls endure this continuous pain and suffering. This is why blind patriotism towards the government is a dangerous thing.
+Mariachi Fishermann I would like to present to you a Theory of mine that states if you believe in a god then God does indeed exist if you do not believe in God then God indeed does not exist whatever you believe in is actually the norm and the true nature of the universe in our society should be neutral but I guess you're tiny incompetent brain will not comprehend these words
Its funny to me how anytime some people hear someone mention praying or God, they go on the offensive. Youre either terribly afraid there is a God, or just have a problem with people thinking differently than you.
Jordan Straessle...no, it's the exact opposite - the problem for you is that we are NO LONGER AFRAID! Your preposterous mythology has gotten a "free ride" for 2,000 years...with a history filled with torture and burning at the stake for non-believers. The good news is, I live in the buy-bull belt and am witnessing firsthand that the local youth are walking away from your fairy tales for a reality based life. This is escalating (as it has in Europe) and soon your bullshit will only be spewed by a tiny minority.
As someone who suffers from PTSD, I can have nothing but sympathy for these poor men who suffered from it. I only hope that One day they found some peace and solace from it
They labelled these men "crazies" and "unstable lunatics"... Appalling. I understand why it's depressing to watch, it also angers me at the lack of compassion back then in men who, suffered mentally....
Heartbreaking to see. What an utterly horrible war. At that time shell shock was new and nobody really understood it. Even if you survived the war you were a wreck twitching every single time you heard a sound resembling a shell exploding.
robert glenn Those people were often horrible, hypocritical cowards, but sometimes their own comrades were made to shoot them. They were forced to, for fear that they would suffer the same fate as their comrade. It was disgusting
Edward, you are one of a kind...thank God. Apparently, you fail to realize that any time you kill another human you are devouring a bit of yourself because each of us is inextricably linked to one another. Those whom you deem suitable for being taken out as garbage due to something called "cowardice" probably realized this too soon in the game called war.
edwardschlosser1 Your attitude is precisely the problem. These men were not genuine cowards, some of them were very brave but had horrible stress and developed a mental issue which was completely out of their control. Having shellshock, or what is known now as PTSD, makes people do things they would not do with a healthy brain. To say that those men are cowards is a complete misnomer. Some of them are so mentally damaged they will become scared for their life if they hear a pen drop, and the effects of shells dropping, bombs and grenades exploding, and bullets whizzing over their heads causes them to have a complete mental breakdown. To force men to go through this - and often times worse things, such as chemical gas or malnourishment and torture in POW camps - for a war which was almost entirely unnecessary is truly sad and these men should be helped and cared for, not called cowards.
+borgmuffin manThank you for your insightful empathy concerning those who are so scarred by war that never again in many instances will they return to normality. It seems the 4-F John Wayne fan feels the necessity to call such men cowards when in fact they are anything but.
Just shoot em right . That will fix it . Totally pathetic approach how is that a solution ? ( That action in its self is a war crime ) Unreal poor bloody souls . R.I.P .
+Frederik Eilertsen Yes, indeed. It is actually imposible to watch a British or American war docummentary where they are not the good guys and their enemies the ones who reserve to die... I'm sure that their banksters and the industrial military complex are really proud of all these soldiers who took the shell shocks for them while making a shitload of money...
A cousin of my great great grandfathers who saw action in the 1/5th T.F Gloucestershire Regiment, 145th Infantry Brigade, 48th (South Midland) Division. His name was Albert Wilfred Barnfield and in 1916 he was reported to have been hospitalised for "shattered nerves" or shell shock. He returned to the 1/5th Gloucesters before their divisional change, from the 48th to the 25th Division. He suffered after this, and died in 1919 after the war officially ended from unknown causes. I hope to god my Albert didn't commit suicide.
Thank you for all you did for the people of England. You had no choice and I cannot even begin to imagine what horrors you suffered. You are gone now but your bravery lives on in our hearts and minds.
So let me get this straight Tony. You don't care about social injustice. You recommend this video because it shows history. This history video shows the effects of war on men who were forced by society to go fight, and how it made them lose their minds. Is that not social injustice?
Being shell shocked.... damm. My great grandpa was in Korea... he was in a small foxhole and a grenade blew his friend in half and he couldn't hear for for than 2 minutes. He fired widly, almost killing his own guys thinking the Chinese had taken the position... but know. Thank God he didn't kill anybody. Shell Shock is terrible, even if it lasts for a few hours.
Frank Watson yeah that's true. Well the little freedom we had after the War all those men died for this country and now we have dick heads running the country and they have messed it up and let it go to the dogs it's very sad
+slickRick The wars were not for freedom. This was about brainwashing, people being gullible, and investors at the top making big money from guns, ammo, equipment, and ownership of companies. Wake up. It hasn't changed at all. And in the past it was about fighting over land, women, and gold.
+P.E.I. Man -Canada- what? they didn't get brainwashed you have. Some of them joined up because they didn't know what they were signing up for and these were very brave men and I have a lot of respect for them I've got family that went in WW1
WWI was not about freedom at all. Simply nation-states going to war over greed, land, and in pursuit of their romantic love for war and adventure all of Europe shared and wished for like they always had before, but this time with 300,000 pound artillery weapons in place of the few hundred pound cannons used just a generation ago in the Napoleonic wars, machine guns, mustard gas, and trenches.
My maternal grandfather, who died three years before I was born, returned from WWI with what the nurses in an army hospital described as the worst case of shell shock of any of the Canadian soldiers who returned. He lasted only a matter of months in the trenches, probably at the second battle of Ypres, before the army removed him from battle. For the next four years, he was in a "twilight," as the nurses described it, constantly in a state that was a combination of being asleep and awake. Eventually he improved, but the psychological damage was so serious that his children would not discuss the matter until the passage of fifty years. I saw in the video indications of the symptoms he endured. Given the unimaginable and unprecedented horror that the soldiers were unprepared to witness, I am beginning to think that "shell shock" was a reasonable reaction to what they experienced. The mind needed to protect itself somehow. Therefore, I am concerned about those soldiers who did no "go insane" (the expression of the day). What was occurring in the minds of those soldiers that they did not need to insulate themselves against the fierce assaults upon their bodies, minds, and even, their very souls?
I'm genuinely surprised that the Faradization treatment worked out positively. Any time you hear about electrical treatments in medicine it is almost always arcane and extremely ineffective
In movies, electric shock therapy is brutal, sadistic, and ineffective. In real life, it's actually pretty painless, requires informed consent, and it works. I've had it.
Electric shock therapy is still in use actually. And it does have positive results if done correctly. Unfortunately it was often done irresponsibly, often causing permanent memory lose.
Sometimes your antenna and processor needs a reboot. Like all machines that stat hiccuping. Interestingly we still have no idea why electroshock works.
Yeah electricity can work and cure certain things, it just requires the right voltage and in the correct spot. If the voltage is too high and its in a bad spot...ouch
My grandfather had a similar case when fighting in Burma, but it was from having to stay still from being hung in cages above crocodiles, and having to stay completely still in rat holes. After the war, he couldn't stay Still. And he lived by a quarry after the war, and the alarms there would always trigger his PTSD. He died when I was 3 if I am correct. Rip gogg
This is just some absolutely horrific PTSD. A very debilitating kind. It's incredibly sad that we put people through stuff like this. My grandfather was a Vietnam veteran and he still has nightmares and PTSD from it.
The story of Myers is a sign of genius, a man who sees something that others can't or won't. He tried to heal what is unhealable, as you can see in 16:56. The horror is still there, in his voice and expression.
My Great Uncle was a stretcher Bearer aged 15 in the Trenches. He developed a condition where he could not stop washing his hands. He spent his whole life in Hospital passing away in the mid 90's.
just the thought of being a soldier going over the top gives me shell shock shivers can't even fathom how it must have felt seeing your friend next to you being blown to pieces knowing your next step might be your last! if there is indeed such a place as hell this is it .. Rip to all the brave selfless men who perished
The story of the soldier who was charged with cowardice and executed was heartbreaking. The shame his wife held in until her own death surely must have affected their children.
My father was a WWII POW VET. He never talked to anyone about the war, except for me alone. Adopted at 11mo I was the youngest, the baby. He told me EVERYTHING starting from my earliest memories. Mama objected but he wanted me to know Incase I ever had to face such challenges I would be strong enough to handle it. I was taught marksmanship, survival techniques and that if ever captured give name rank and serial number ONLY. He was very adamant about the last part. God rest his soul, the strongest kindest most honest man I've ever known. ❤️
I suffer from PTSD from Iraq. PTSD is even mentioned in the Bible. It is as old as war itself. It is unnatural to be in such horrific situations. If you read the Pslams King David wrote, you can tell he suffers from it, He was in many many battles. He suffered anxiety, depressioin, anger, fear, but looked to God to calm him down. If antidepressants existed at that time Im quite sure he would have been on them. I had a terrilbe time when I returned home several years ago and take medicatioins now. They have helped me a lot along with counseling I recieve at the VA. God bless those who suffer form this horrible condition and the people who love them.
I'm sorry that you suffer from PTSD.I hope one day you will find peace. My nephew was in Iraq he was there for 4 years. It has changed him. He is 33 now, but was 18 when he went. I pray for all the men and women that are fighting this battle even after the war.Better is the ending of a matter than its beginning......
please look up Peter Levine, PhD in psychology, he has worked with many veterans and helped a lot of them :) ua-cam.com/video/nmJDkzDMllc/v-deo.html his speciality is trauma and ptsd, used to work with nasa and the military. His stuff is called somatic experiencing, and includes the stress responses of the body togheter with the mind.
You do realize that it was highly plausible that King David used narcotics like opium. During that time in history opium was the main plant grown for PTSD. Alexander the great grew opium. Opium never really cured Alexander, he was a violent drunkard until death. Julius Cesar grew opium. Ancient Egypt is a used it as schools taught that opium works. Ancient Egyptians taught their children in school that opium it takes away fear. Now the government gives you medical cards. With so much historical usage of opium I find it odd only cannabis is researched for PTSD. I recommend cannabis. You will need to grow cannabis until you die. Heh if opium is legal in your country it'd be worth a shot to grow some poppies to see what you can score. Opium kills though. David had to have done drugs. Plant narcotics are well known by that time as King Solomon used cannabis and was burried with it.
My utmost respect goes to these courageous, wonderful men. I am appalled they had to go through this. Ever so grateful I haven't been through what they have. My complete sympathy goes to these souls.
Great video Thanks for uploading! My grandfather was in WW1 at verdun and have always heard talk about shell shock but never really grasped the severity of it. VERY informative
I really have difficulty watching this. I simply cannot fathom the camaraderie these men had... Simply dying for their cause, but more importantly, the Brother in Arms next to them. Unfortunately, and god willing, I will never have the honor and privilege of serving next to such brave men. ...
In August 1914, nearly everyone believed The Great War would be over in a few months. Only a few wise commanders such as Lord Kitchener and Winston Churchill realized it would be a long struggle. RIP to all the men who lost their lives in this conflict.
How did some men make it out of this war appearing mentally unscathed by everything they witnessed, I will never know. It must take a really really special person. I know if I were there I would've totally lost it completely.
Everybody who saw combat and death dealt with it the rest of their lives. Back then PTSD wasnt as acknowledged like it is today. Most men had nightmares and flashbacks every day but they were told they had to control it and they would be fine. Trust me there absolutely cannot be someone who was in combat snd killed and witnessed their friends die that dont struggle to deal with those memories. They just bottled it up and kept it inside them
16:10 what I get from his tellings are do heartbreaking. The longer he recalls, the more in his head he goes, and he sees enough of the horrors to break thought. And in this particular recall, to me it sounds like he used the pencil as the weapon, or it's just the last thing he remembers before he goes blackout
Only recently found my grandfather's discharge papers. Shell shock. He had lied about his age and joined at 16. I don't think anyone in the family knew this, certainly no one ever spoke of it. He was a great man. Brilliant sense of humor. The government rewarded his service with a great education and he was a success by any standard. Breaks my heart to know, at such a young age, the horror he went through. We owe so much to our veterans. Not to other countries. Charity begins at home. House our homeless Veterans!
How could you call these men coward? Bravery is knowing the odds and having the courage to step up, ride in a charge or to the rescue of a fellow soldier, in WW1 there were no odds, out there randomly with devilish mathematical certainty there was a shell with your name on it, and no amount of courage tactical acumen or physical fitness could save you.
Atrahasis7 the men who called these men cowards never saw or felt the horrors that these men did. Put those men in the trenches for a day and see what they think then.
@@sk8clips845 It was though, most nations made videos like this not only for training and propoganda purposes but so guys, especially the new recruits, who had never engaged in trench warfare before could get a bit of an idea of the tactics being used before they got there. It would be extremely unlikely to have a video camera right behind only a couple of lads going over, if you want to see actual recorded video of going over the top I'd definitely recommend They Shall Not Grow Old if you haven't seen it already!
My grandad was a paratrooper in ww2 and he was at Arnhem, he watched all his mates being shot out of the sky - but he survived - and struggled with that. Then the poor chap died just before I was born at only 52 😔 life is shit - but - we will meet again. God bless xxxxxxxx
"A brave soldier doesn't kill because he hates what's in front of him, but because he loves what's behind him" RIP to WW1 and WW2 soldiers and veterans...
My gpa was in ww2. He never talked about his time in the army, but my mom told me a few things. I remember thinking as a child that him being in the artillery meant he didn’t see much combat. Ww2 artillery…goodness I was a fool. Those boys went through hell and back, just like everyone else running and gunning. He was such amazing man to be around! His mind was sharp as a tack until his early 90s…my GMA died and he went downhill after that. They were married for over 60 years. Possibly 70. Idr. I was lucky to have shaken the hand of a man responsible for ensuring the freedom of all of us who live in this great nation. He was a straight war hero. Rest in peace grandpa.
My grandfather was 17 when he joined the RFC, WW1, then in the RAF in WW11. My father also lied about his age ,17 , on joining the RAF, Bomber Command, Lancasters. Both of these darling men in my life always made me laugh and feel so loved . They never spoke of the Wars . I took English Literature for A level ... World War 1 poets were part of the curriculum. I am ashamed to admit that I never fully understood the message Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon tried to convey. I honour my father and grandfather ..and all who served for our freedom. Thank you .
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Shell schock ww1
My father was a WWII POW VET. He never talked to anyone about the war, except for me alone. Adopted at 11mo I was the youngest, the baby. He told me EVERYTHING starting from my earliest memories. Mama objected but he wanted me to know Incase I ever had to face such challenges I would be strong enough to handle it. I was taught marksmanship, survival techniques and that if ever captured give name rank and serial number ONLY. He was very adamant about the last part. God rest his soul, the strongest kindest most honest man I've ever known. ❤️
If they are like this while awake then I cannot imagine what their dreams were like. Poor souls.
Ikr, it's so sad they had to suffer because of bad leaders.
Kirk Brown the dreams never go away. There are certain smells and tastes that can cause you to go into kill mode. One loses their soul while in intense combat. The dreams do plague you. Family becomes increasingly intolerant. War is terrible. We should do all we can to avoid it. We need to start putting these big wigs in the front line positions.
One cannot climb the walls of nightmare. One must each night delve down into the underbelly of Hell and sort through the guts and brains of friends and comrades.
SideflashTM It’s been described as lions being led by donkeys.
greg raines No that was the Germans mocking British forces, not specificially the leaders.
My father became physically, and mentally disabled on Omaha Beach, D-Day.. He spent years and years in state hospitals, being treated for the shell shock he had.. He lived to be 85, and died in a state hospital. The last time I saw my dad, was in 1961. My sister and I were hiding under our parents bed, while he was trying to kill us, and our mom. He thought we were Germans, and needed to kill us.. After beating my mom, (to a pulp, almost killing her,) , he looked for us. He couldn't find us, so he got his rifle out, (bad idea for a veteran), and went uprown, Merced, Ca. To find more Germans.. The police found him hiding in a downtown bar, hunkered down,, and crying his eyes out.. All I remember of my dad is that 'hundred yard stare' he had when he looked at any of us. War dosen't hurt just soldiers..
I'm sorry Debra.
Why do you feel this way Benjammin5150? (WHY?)
RIP
Debra Sparks That must have been sheer terror for you and your family. I'm sure your father seen horrors in bits and bursts between the boredom, unimaginable horrors and on top of that someone is trying to kill you at every turn. I'm sure he loved you all very much. I myself am about to seek treatment for PTSD. You are so right saying that war doesn't just hurt soldiers. I wish you well .
Debra Sparks I bet you've watched too much Saving Pvt Ryan.
11:59 The reaction of that soldier to the word bomb... insane, and really sad.
R Vafa There was battles in ww1 where 1 million shells or more were dropped in a day, it's no where near comparable.
No matter how many bombs were dropped then and now, it still a trauma which can develop into a shell shock.
If millions of bombs destroyed the minds of many adults, then these children today are obviously devastated. Their HOME country is being bombed. I'd say its as comparable as it gets, bud.
Matt Moore *their
Wow I actually somehow fucked that up lmfao
this should be shown to all the internet tough guys who want wars.
+alexww180 To be fair modern warfare isnt soldiers bashing their heads in with trench clubs while gas is being deployed on them, modern day wars are usuall engangements fought with a large distance to the enemy and most is suppresive fire to scare em off its not like Call of Duty :D
but yes I agree this shows the horrors of wars :/
Can Turkleton Don't watch WW1 films and then think the war was like that, most of engagements in ww1 happened on ranges longer than 300 meters aswell. And tecnology never made warfare a joke, war never changes. www.liveleak.com/view?i=1a4_1422373221
alexww180
I know but compared to the wars of our time its nothing like that. that is a fact
PS: nice Fallout referrence
Can Turkleton ahah i never played fallout! what reference did i make? i am curious
alexww180
War never changes
the guy who only responded to 'bomb' broke my heart
how did he hear it if he was deaf?
+The Cringe Connoisseur he wasn't deaf that's the point. His brain cut out all noise that was making him worse. It recognised 'Bomb' in an effort to keep him alive.
Ry Boy its called a hypersensitive reaction or hypersensitive stimuli a physiological reaction to the brain in order to survive
During those times, death was just a second away for so many, and so many more witnessed their friends LITERALLY turned to red mist by artillery. It was so terrifying, that their brains reverted to a more primitive way of processing information in which anything that wasn't directly related to surviving those horrors got pushed out, and was replaced by raw instinct: 1.listen for incoming bombs. 2.Listen for some one to yell the word "Bomb!". 3.Scurry for ANY tiny bit of cover possible if conditions 1 and 2 are met...thats all those poor fellows we're operating on. Even though it happened over a 100 years ago, my heart still goes out to all the British, French, Germans, etc that had to LIVE like that for 4 years straight.
Evelina Vaiou EEEEEK not the B word!
Going to bed now, thinking about how lucky I am
no well prob die in a nucelear war. I hate how people think were living a threatless paradise. No. Currently there more threats to humanity than there has ever been
@@veneukko9885 The presence of nuclear weapons are the only reason we won't go to any more wars.
sir@@ZeusTheTornado, don't be naive.
Niiiiiiiiiiight😴
@@Kev-wa10-163 Nighhhtt 💤
The saddest thing are the boys who survived the war. Since most of them were still young, they ended up fighting in WWII as well.
They died in misery. That’s the saddest part. They were insane till the day they died
@@insaneoyster9053 And when they went to heaven, God greeted them in German.
So sad!! 😢😭
Had a great great uncle who was in the cavalry in WW1 and went into WW2 but idk why
My dad's uncle (guess its my grand uncle) fought both WW1 and WW2 in Italy and survived both... my only memory of him is when I was 3 yrs old, in a hospital bed, right before he died, at 98. I still have his officer stars and his magnifier he used to read.
I think the people that broke down were the *sane* ones .
Oli Faelaen
right
Oli Faelaen good thought.
Agreed
That's true I can't see a serial killer. Being effected by ll this
True.
Human beings weren't created to experience the horrific things war has to offer.
It was bound to happen anyway.
Humans were built to fight and kill, but not on an industrial scale in which you cannot possibly fight back like shelling and mortaring causes.
Frosty ZXC No human's were not created for that reason, totally wrong.
***** lol!
They were too built to fight and kill. But they shouldn't be exposed to gas and mortars
Everyime my grandpa heard someone scream he would get up sleeping or not and look around his house saying ¨I´m coming to you buddy.¨ before he would sit down on the ground and pray.
Oh my god that broke my heart
O man....that kicks in...😔😪😪😪
Absolutely heartbreaking, yet incredible to realize just how far we've come when dealing with the mentally ill and disturbed. Rest in peace, men of WWI.
HeroSlam we've gotten nowhere, there's still war
War is inevitable. The only true way to overcome war is control. Is that the peace we want? Freedom only opens up opportunity for hysteria. This is shown greatly in countries such as Syria, The US and Afghanistan. The more control, the more peace.
theTrexus You’re greatly mistaken. Look at Europe, we have freedom and peace. All you need is functioning societies without insane leaders with delusions of grandeur
Control does not make peace, look at China.
This is so tragic. I remember, when I was a child in the early 50s, seeing a man walking along the road normally one minute, and then he would fling himself on the pavement, cover his head with his hands then get up and walk on. Never forgotten it. :/
Bullshit
@@watermyplants6089 how so ? Argh
@@watermyplants6089 everything is a b******* to morons like you.
@@watermyplants6089 You cannot even imagine PTSD among soldiers
@@andycheng9066 Thats a wild assumption because you don't know anything bro
As a child in the 1960s in Wales an old person escaped from the local old people's home and he was in the lane behind our house feeling his way along the wall shaking and crying out as though bombs were going off. I have never forgotten that old man; trapped in a world of endless war and being constantly bombed and attacked total never ending nightmare for him sadly
... It's horrifying and heartbreaking to see these brave men just broken down like this. War is hell, and World War I was probably the worst hell of any of the wars.
we don't get it now. weapons are more effective now, they kill and don't maim. roughly 70m people died in WWII and around 15-16m died in WWI. Yet it's such a sick thought that more devastation, mental wounds, and all around hell came out of WWI. Sad. I always think around this time of year(Independence Day in the US), that it's a sick irony that we honor our freedom and those who fought/continue to fight for it with explosions. Saddest part of all is the feeling of similarity between right now and a century ago. During and after this war(WWI), there were laws in place against the disfigured from war being on the streets without a prosthetic or a mask to cover the blown apart jaws. Makes me think about civilians and what soldiers fight for. In America we 'support the troops,' but want to make Veterans Affairs a private business. We send care packages from our schools to the fronts and yet we are never asked to care for the ones who come back home wounded emotionally, physically, spiritually. Civilians love war until it's time to clean it up. Sadly, many of these shell shock cases ended in death. Whether by execution, suicide, or events that they couldn't help when they got home. Reminds me of the 22 Veterans a day who kill themselves in America. War is literal hell, but coming home is purgatory.
***** all suicides are bad and all means should be made to prevent all suicides. I'm just always a bit off during the 4th and I didn't mean to attack civilians or make it seem as a 'them/us' situation. I would say that the focus was more on battle fatigue than it was towards suicide. That subject just leads to it and, again, I didn't mean to put civilians on the block or water down the struggle of everyday people. Just a weird time is all.
In ww1 there were more powerful weapons then now cause if you shot with a rifle there was possibility of shooting the enemy leg or hand off
+Elisabeth2001 omfg literally still using weapons from that era. tarded.
I agree. That picture of that solider smiling, who's affected by Shell Shock.. Shudder..
And all the politicians on both sides went on to live long and prosperous lives.
Phillip Norton It’s amazing that millions of leftists still trust politicians enough to submit power to them.
Czar Nicholas did not
@@TheGodYouWishYouKnew don't act as if right wingers don't do that
Zen We don’t. That’s what makes us right-wingers.
@@TheGodYouWishYouKnew that's just hypocritical
These men were seen as statistics, not actual people with family. War shouldn't exist.
War will continue to exist as long as lots of people foolishly think it's "absolutely necessary". As long as people reason like scared children and think:"Better to get them before they get us." People see distant threats and cunning politicians play into their fears. It annoys me how easily startled people are over minor things and how quick they are to abandon reason when media scares them with some big words to sell more issues. War must be avoided at any cost and with reason and understanding you're halfway there. Even the most awkward and clumsy diplomatic compromise is preferable to wars where countless of lives are forever shattered.
Second: War will exist as long as some people are unfairly treated by others and oppressed by foreign invaders or their local vassals and lackeys being on the payroll of the firstmentioned. This is why it's good to understand the global economy and who controls what and by what means they're willing to maintain their control over that. I boycott all companies who have hired mercenaries to clean out villages and never buy anything from companies who have sweatshops with children working in them.
If people just understood what they're sometimes silently participating in or worse condoning, we'd solve 90% of the world's conflicts right there.
A hundred years ago people were so indoctrinated in nationalistic propaganda they willingly signed on to industrial slaughter of millions just because it was "glorious" and "noble" to die (and kill) for your country, your king/emperor or your God. The last reason is particularly absurd but usually explained with "We know we're one the good and righteous side..."
War shouldn't exist. I agree. But as long as people are stupid and ignorant and narrowminded and can't see anything from any other perspective than their own wars will exist. In the end people themselves are ultimately to blame for both choosing and listening to warmongers and sneaky politicians grooming them into becoming whores of war and "state mercenaries".
Historians have concluded World War One was unavoidable. The mindset of the people back then and the never before seen arms race made a global conflict guaranteed. Hopefully people aren't equally driven by jingoism and petty nationalism today. Better solve their differences with online war games. Nobody has to die.
epic_El if war didn't exist how would theelote dispose of the lower classes of people? I watched a documentary on how in WW2 all the German V rockets were aimed at the ghettos of Britain. Its sad that a group of people use war for financial gain and population control!
epic_El reliion should not exist either
of you want peace prepare for war, sounds shitty but that's the world we live in
epic_El Yeah but the plot twist is that they chose to live this. No one forces you to go to war
17 years old, in charge of 34 men, trying to lead them through all the dying, trying not to run away. Thats horrifying. 15:30
I'm 17 years old myself and it really puts it in perspective for just how much these men went through, im sat here now in perfect comfort and warmth all thanks to him and many others that were the exact same age as me having to be exposed to so much death and trauma
@@tomhardie8197 You think f there wasnt such a horrific war, you wouldn't be comfortable and warm?
you can only barely imagine what kinds of horror these men mustve witnessed with their eyes, and the degree of fear and carnage they mustve felt, and experienced to have their minds and bodies become so twisted and transformed.. that war mustve been like a hell we could never have possibly imagined..
Not to mention it was the first time in history artillary could fire really quickly with little pause. As well as the first time chemicals where used.
Gabriel Garcia I heard they were children in ww1.
Gabriel Garcia Exactly so who are we to judge any soldier who was part of this filthy brutal hell of a war? People saying some men faked illness to get out of the war well if you'd seen what they had, I'd be running too. The nightmares would never leave your memory
Julz XD The real miracle is that the vast majority actually stayed in the trenches and endured the horrors all around them.
greg raines "Death oh yes, oh yes... It was the first time I'd ever seen death" those words.... A living hell on earth for these men. Yes indeed a miracle these men not only lived through this hell but survived to talk about it....
It bothers me how these men whom fought for their countries gets "mocked" and made fun at for almost dying to protect them, these men were brave enough to lay in a trench for weeks if not months getting bombarded with gasses, shells and deaths all around them... It's disgusting how humanity reacts to such things and how we talk down on people that are just like us, we all have the same amount of chromosomes dont we?
Tho the youngest suffer the most, they are the ones who jump into the fray!! Old men know this!
Who mocks them?
sonny lee~ We Viet Nam veterans are not alone Sonny but, did you return home to the young protesters jumping in your face and, accusing you of things 'they' learned on the nightly news and professors? How do you think the following developed? ~ You asked.
~ I consider the following MYTHS to be a mockery of the American GI.
*Myth: Common belief is that a disproportionate number of blacks were killed in the Vietnam War.
Fact: 86% of the men who died in Vietnam were Caucasians, 12.5%... were black, 1.2% were other races. Sociologists Charles C. Moskos and John Sibley Butler, in their recently published book "All That We Can Be," said they analyzed the claim that blacks were used like cannon fodder during Vietnam "and can report definitely that this charge is untrue. Black fatalities amounted to 12 percent of all Americans killed in Southeast Asia, a figure proportional to the number of blacks in the U.S. population at the time and slightly lower than the proportion of blacks in the Army at the close of the war."
*Myth: The common belief is that the domino theory was proved false.
Fact: The domino theory was accurate. The ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries, Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand stayed free of Communism because of the U.S. commitment to Vietnam. The Indonesians threw the Soviets out in 1966 because of America's commitment in Vietnam. Without that commitment, Communism would have swept all the way to the Malacca Straits that is south of Singapore and of great strategic importance to the free world. If you ask people who live in these countries that won the war in Vietnam, they have a different opinion from the American news media. The Vietnam War was the turning point for Communism.
*Myth: The common belief is that the fighting in Vietnam was not as intense as in World War II.
Fact: The average infantryman in the South Pacific during World War II saw about 40 days of combat in four years. The average infantryman in Vietnam saw about 240 days of combat in one year thanks to the mobility of the helicopter. One out of every 10 Americans who served in Vietnam was a casualty. 58,148 were killed and 304,000 wounded out of 2.7 million who served. Although the percent that died is similar to other wars, amputations or crippling wounds were 300 percent higher than in World War II. 75,000 Vietnam veterans are severely disabled. MEDEVAC helicopters flew nearly 500,000 missions. Over 900,000 patients were airlifted (nearly half were American). The average time lapse between wounding to hospitalization was less than one hour. As a result, less than one percent of all Americans wounded, who survived the first 24 hours, died. The helicopter provided unprecedented mobility. Without the helicopter it would have taken three times as many troops to secure the 800 mile border with Cambodia and Laos (the politicians thought the Geneva Conventions of 1954 and the Geneva Accords or 1962 would secure the border).
**I share this for the sake of truth but, have no doubt, I will always revere my Father's generation; the greatest generation of all. THE AMERICAN FIGHTING MAN WILL NEVER BE MATCHED IN MY HOME.
Moveeyy hell that one guy got the damn firing squad!
joe whiteman what do you mean?
Quite possibly one of the most disturbing videos I've ever watched.
Especially hearing of the separate traumatic events that men had witnessed like the tank rolling over wounded friendlies... WW1 was fucked bruh
Did you just recently start watching the internet?
the ones they have on here are the tamer of videos of men who were filmed many of them catatonic until the day that they died their arms and legs not under their control. It's always the common man who dies and the politician who profits.
Same
In war there are no heroes or cowards, there is only opportunity to suffer until those words are completely meaningless.
the only Hero's are the ones that died, the rest are just victims.
Dillon Feast
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Dillon Feast were did u read that?wait was that from saving private Ryan?
That's a complete myth. A good portion of the first onto the battlefield and the first to die were upper class young children who joined the war. Even the older upper class soldiers were equally susceptible to being shot down in a trench raid, or in general during later halves of the war.
Dalion Heart
so what's the point
Hard to believe this all happened 100 years ago
And now we just send drones and planes to kill people. We make "intelligent war"... nothing changed, just the settings and the tools
This is more frightening than any horror movie I've seen
Because unlike horror movies, this was real.
My dad was a tailgunner in WWII. He had a breakdown and refused to fly another mission. So they gave him a desk job. Someone suggested to me he was a coward. I certainly don't think so.
Smart dude trying to survive. No one is prepared to going to war.
You should have punched them in the face.
He's definitely NOT a coward. I thank him for his service 🙏
Not a coward
No man that took up the tailgunner's position was ever a coward!!
"Every war is a civil war because all men are brothers."
Der Vorenger awesome words!!!
Our Atoms come from star stuff. not only we apart of the Universe. But the Universe is in us. ee all brotgers and sisters. But turns out murder makes the world go around. bad news for us my brother
Snails40 Its a quote from Francois Fenelon.
That's pretty damn good. I like that.
Also Muslims?’
Man, this is depressing. But so interesting.
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PTSD is still taking the lives of young soldiers whether physically, emotionally or mentally. Thoughts with all those suffering.
Kilooscarromeo
AMEN! Anyone that volunteers to go fight bankers wars deserves what they get.
Kilooscarromeo you make me sick
IIRC more soldiers in the US have committed suicide than been killed at war, since WW2.
@@TheBenjammin5150 You make me sick. You should know what conscription is, they don’t know they’re being deployed as not many are.
It's sad the fact that those young souls had all their live to live :/ and now they couldn't
RIP to every person who fought in WW1
and animal.
omfc i know....
HybridChronic420 differentiation isn't necessary
not everyone who fought in ww1 died btw
HybridChronic420 bitch ur not the brightest he said "RIP to every person who fought in ww1" he shoulda said RIP to every person who DIED in ww1
i believe the Great war had to literally be hell on earth for these men. No human should endure that much murder and death. This would drive a sane man insane.
MrTaser99 I agree. Thanks for that comment.
Alan Brown I agree with you
This DID drive sane people insane.
why call it the great war ww2 happened they called it the great war thinking there wasnt gonna be another
MrTaser99 definitely
In war, the ones who lose are always the soldiers. ALL soldiers, of all armies and countries who participate.
Sibylle Leon and civilians :(
Soldiers and civilians are just a pawns in war.
I don't know if you are joking or being serious. But it's pretty obvious that the government higher official and rich people are the players.
Only the dead see the end of war
I HAVE SO MUCH RESPECT FOR THOSE MEN, true heroes, we have no idea
They were victims not heros.
Victims can be hero's too.
they call them heroes, but these generation was very much exploited by politicians and military leaders. the political and military leaders did not care about human lifes at all altough they could finish the war earlier but they wanted unconditional surrender. There was chnace to finish it 1915,1916,1917 but allies did not want to finish the war. than the unfair versailles treaty caused the 2nd war.
you can read war diaries of foot solders from every side: they did not want to be murderers but did not have any other choice. several times they said they did not have any problem with soldiers of the other side, did not know them and did not want to kill them. all of them suffered PTSD like soldiers of today. and nowadays? war propaganda is still strong and able to convince people to kill eachother for whatever stupid reason.
@@kernom749 nope they were victims end of story, stop glorifying war.
My heart weeps when I see these poor souls endure this continuous pain and suffering. This is why blind patriotism towards the government is a dangerous thing.
so true. i agree
you are so wright all goverment leaders lie
God bless these men
+Mariachi Fishermann I would like to present to you a Theory of mine that states if you believe in a god then God does indeed exist if you do not believe in God then God indeed does not exist whatever you believe in is actually the norm and the true nature of the universe in our society should be neutral but I guess you're tiny incompetent brain will not comprehend these words
Gin Potion...what you describe is called DELUSION! Doesn't make it the least bit "real".
Its funny to me how anytime some people hear someone mention praying or God, they go on the offensive. Youre either terribly afraid there is a God, or just have a problem with people thinking differently than you.
Jordan Straessle...no, it's the exact opposite - the problem for you is that we are NO LONGER AFRAID! Your preposterous mythology has gotten a "free ride" for 2,000 years...with a history filled with torture and burning at the stake for non-believers. The good news is, I live in the buy-bull belt and am witnessing firsthand that the local youth are walking away from your fairy tales for a reality based life. This is escalating (as it has in Europe) and soon your bullshit will only be spewed by a tiny minority.
Gin Potion " *you're* tiny incompetent brain will not comprehend these words" Prime example of the Dunning Kruger effect.
26:23 love that genuine smile of being able to walk normally again.
11:59 Thats sickening. Christ, to literally have your entire existence defined by fear.
As someone who suffers from PTSD, I can have nothing but sympathy for these poor men who suffered from it. I only hope that One day they found some peace and solace from it
Smoke cannabis brother
@@donaldtrumppy9092 Terrible idea for most people with PTSD and anxiety related.
I hope you do too.. please take care.
Watching these poor men is absolutely heartbreaking. May God keep them safe.
this is the most depressing documentary I've ever seen.
subpolarity ik it is isn't it
subpolarity hi friend!
They labelled these men "crazies" and "unstable lunatics"... Appalling. I understand why it's depressing to watch, it also angers me at the lack of compassion back then in men who, suffered mentally....
Heartbreaking to see. What an utterly horrible war. At that time shell shock was new and nobody really understood it. Even if you survived the war you were a wreck twitching every single time you heard a sound resembling a shell exploding.
Wez Marauder I fully agree, Wez.
Never was so much owed by so many to so few. Our men will never be forgotten.
My problem is this is the best we can do. It's very little to be honest.
These men sacrificed so much. I’m so grateful for them.
If men shot for cowardice are genuine cowards, then what do we call those who shoot a blind-folded unarmed man?
robert glenn Those people were often horrible, hypocritical cowards, but sometimes their own comrades were made to shoot them. They were forced to, for fear that they would suffer the same fate as their comrade. It was disgusting
yeah, it had to have been a very difficult spot to be put in, BorgMuffinMan.
Edward, you are one of a kind...thank God. Apparently, you fail to realize that any time you kill another human you are devouring a bit of yourself because each of us is inextricably linked to one another. Those whom you deem suitable for being taken out as garbage due to something called "cowardice" probably realized this too soon in the game called war.
edwardschlosser1 Your attitude is precisely the problem. These men were not genuine cowards, some of them were very brave but had horrible stress and developed a mental issue which was completely out of their control. Having shellshock, or what is known now as PTSD, makes people do things they would not do with a healthy brain. To say that those men are cowards is a complete misnomer. Some of them are so mentally damaged they will become scared for their life if they hear a pen drop, and the effects of shells dropping, bombs and grenades exploding, and bullets whizzing over their heads causes them to have a complete mental breakdown. To force men to go through this - and often times worse things, such as chemical gas or malnourishment and torture in POW camps - for a war which was almost entirely unnecessary is truly sad and these men should be helped and cared for, not called cowards.
+borgmuffin manThank you for your insightful empathy concerning those who are so scarred by war that never again in many instances will they return to normality. It seems the 4-F John Wayne fan feels the necessity to call such men cowards when in fact they are anything but.
I don't normally cry watching war documentaries but that moment at 11:59 is the saddest thing I've ever seen.
Just shoot em right . That will fix it . Totally pathetic approach how is that a solution ? ( That action in its self is a war crime ) Unreal poor bloody souls . R.I.P .
Make no mistake.
The germans are far from the only ones who has committed war crimes in the 1st or the 2nd world war.
+Frederik Eilertsen Yes, indeed. It is actually imposible to watch a British or American war docummentary where they are not the good guys and their enemies the ones who reserve to die... I'm sure that their banksters and the industrial military complex are really proud of all these soldiers who took the shell shocks for them while making a shitload of money...
Martín Ignacio Defeo The winners write the history bro..
I completely agree with you.
+Frederik Eilertsen Grüsse aus Buenos Aires.
"all quiet on the western front" is a good movie, it kinda gives a good perspective on this.
A cousin of my great great grandfathers who saw action in the 1/5th T.F Gloucestershire Regiment, 145th Infantry Brigade, 48th (South Midland) Division. His name was Albert Wilfred Barnfield and in 1916 he was reported to have been hospitalised for "shattered nerves" or shell shock. He returned to the 1/5th Gloucesters before their divisional change, from the 48th to the 25th Division. He suffered after this, and died in 1919 after the war officially ended from unknown causes. I hope to god my Albert didn't commit suicide.
This is so genuinely shattering and heart breaking to see just how affected those brave people were after serving their country.
Thanks for ALL of your uploads, Dr Brown. Very informative and interesting.
+RangerInParadise Thank you for watching!
Thank you for all you did for the people of England. You had no choice and I cannot even begin to imagine what horrors you suffered. You are gone now but your bravery lives on in our hearts and minds.
Glad we have UA-cam to learn history. Modern history classes only focus on social injustice and environmental damage, which I don't care about.
+Tony Sanchez There's much truth in what you say, Tony.
Tony Sanchez my teacher is really good
So let me get this straight Tony. You don't care about social injustice. You recommend this video because it shows history.
This history video shows the effects of war on men who were forced by society to go fight, and how it made them lose their minds. Is that not social injustice?
Michael Agnew what's wrong with that if he wants to learn then he wants to learn
Michael Agnew If they didn't fight, who would?
Being shell shocked.... damm. My great grandpa was in Korea... he was in a small foxhole and a grenade blew his friend in half and he couldn't hear for for than 2 minutes. He fired widly, almost killing his own guys thinking the Chinese had taken the position... but know. Thank God he didn't kill anybody. Shell Shock is terrible, even if it lasts for a few hours.
What is shell shock
Are you joking?! XD
Elyce Monet yes
Kako The Kaioken Android ptsd
Why was that korean warnor ww1 or 2
13:42
Just couldn't do it... poor guy. Some people just shouldn't be there.
+Laurentius Postumius Pulcher He later got shot by his officer
@@TsoiIzAlive how do you know ?
No one should be there. War is hell created by some motherfuckers
@S3 M5 he wasn't a traitor. He was probably having a nervous breakdown.
Some? I get what you mean but NO ONE should be there.
We will always remember those brave men who fought and died for our freedom. less we forget.
Frank Watson yeah that's true. Well the little freedom we had after the War all those men died for this country and now we have dick heads running the country and they have messed it up and let it go to the dogs it's very sad
+slickRick The wars were not for freedom. This was about brainwashing, people being gullible, and investors at the top making big money from guns, ammo, equipment, and ownership of companies. Wake up. It hasn't changed at all. And in the past it was about fighting over land, women, and gold.
+P.E.I. Man -Canada- what? they didn't get brainwashed you have. Some of them joined up because they didn't know what they were signing up for and these were very brave men and I have a lot of respect for them I've got family that went in WW1
WWI was not about freedom at all. Simply nation-states going to war over greed, land, and in pursuit of their romantic love for war and adventure all of Europe shared and wished for like they always had before, but this time with 300,000 pound artillery weapons in place of the few hundred pound cannons used just a generation ago in the Napoleonic wars, machine guns, mustard gas, and trenches.
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Quit being a douche...You might want to try ending your sentences, with proper punctuation.
My maternal grandfather, who died three years before I was born, returned from WWI with what the nurses in an army hospital described as the worst case of shell shock of any of the Canadian soldiers who returned. He lasted only a matter of months in the trenches, probably at the second battle of Ypres, before the army removed him from battle. For the next four years, he was in a "twilight," as the nurses described it, constantly in a state that was a combination of being asleep and awake. Eventually he improved, but the psychological damage was so serious that his children would not discuss the matter until the passage of fifty years. I saw in the video indications of the symptoms he endured.
Given the unimaginable and unprecedented horror that the soldiers were unprepared to witness, I am beginning to think that "shell shock" was a reasonable reaction to what they experienced. The mind needed to protect itself somehow. Therefore, I am concerned about those soldiers who did no "go insane" (the expression of the day). What was occurring in the minds of those soldiers that they did not need to insulate themselves against the fierce assaults upon their bodies, minds, and even, their very souls?
Wow god bless him. did he ever recover?
I am heart broken from this. god bless these men
Thank you for the upload! This video made me cry......poor lads....
I'm genuinely surprised that the Faradization treatment worked out positively. Any time you hear about electrical treatments in medicine it is almost always arcane and extremely ineffective
In movies, electric shock therapy is brutal, sadistic, and ineffective. In real life, it's actually pretty painless, requires informed consent, and it works. I've had it.
Electric shock therapy is still in use actually. And it does have positive results if done correctly. Unfortunately it was often done irresponsibly, often causing permanent memory lose.
Sometimes your antenna and processor needs a reboot. Like all machines that stat hiccuping. Interestingly we still have no idea why electroshock works.
Matt Bowen its still used today
Yeah electricity can work and cure certain things, it just requires the right voltage and in the correct spot. If the voltage is too high and its in a bad spot...ouch
God Bless Them All...
My grandfather had a similar case when fighting in Burma, but it was from having to stay still from being hung in cages above crocodiles, and having to stay completely still in rat holes. After the war, he couldn't stay Still. And he lived by a quarry after the war, and the alarms there would always trigger his PTSD. He died when I was 3 if I am correct. Rip gogg
A few years ago the last shell shocked soldier died in a Mental Asylum ..to think he would have been no use to himself for over half a century
optimusidol sad
This is just some absolutely horrific PTSD. A very debilitating kind. It's incredibly sad that we put people through stuff like this. My grandfather was a Vietnam veteran and he still has nightmares and PTSD from it.
0:41 that poor handsome boy that is heartbreaking
To say in a letter home “I am sick, and it was not my fault” is heartbreaking, those men and women gave their all even after the war.
Apart from the mental anguish of shell shock, it must have been physically exhausting especially the extreme cases of full body convulsing
The story of Myers is a sign of genius, a man who sees something that others can't or won't. He tried to heal what is unhealable, as you can see in 16:56. The horror is still there, in his voice and expression.
My Great Uncle was a stretcher Bearer aged 15 in the Trenches. He developed a condition where he could not stop washing his hands. He spent his whole life in Hospital passing away in the mid 90's.
just the thought of being a soldier going over the top gives me shell shock shivers can't even fathom how it must have felt seeing your friend next to you being blown to pieces knowing your next step might be your last! if there is indeed such a place as hell this is it .. Rip to all the brave selfless men who perished
My respects go out to these men for being the toughest and bravery and I hope they Rest In Peace and don’t have to be in hell anymore for fighting...
The story of the soldier who was charged with cowardice and executed was heartbreaking. The shame his wife held in until her own death surely must have affected their children.
My father was a WWII POW VET. He never talked to anyone about the war, except for me alone. Adopted at 11mo I was the youngest, the baby. He told me EVERYTHING starting from my earliest memories. Mama objected but he wanted me to know Incase I ever had to face such challenges I would be strong enough to handle it. I was taught marksmanship, survival techniques and that if ever captured give name rank and serial number ONLY. He was very adamant about the last part. God rest his soul, the strongest kindest most honest man I've ever known. ❤️
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I suffer from PTSD from Iraq. PTSD is even mentioned in the Bible. It is as old as war itself. It is unnatural to be in such horrific situations. If you read the Pslams King David wrote, you can tell he suffers from it, He was in many many battles. He suffered anxiety, depressioin, anger, fear, but looked to God to calm him down. If antidepressants existed at that time Im quite sure he would have been on them. I had a terrilbe time when I returned home several years ago and take medicatioins now. They have helped me a lot along with counseling I recieve at the VA. God bless those who suffer form this horrible condition and the people who love them.
John Gluck please, I want you to know I feel really bad for you, because my father had that too, and spent most of his life in V.A. Hospitals..
I'm sorry that you suffer from PTSD.I hope one day you will find peace. My nephew was in Iraq he was there for 4 years. It has changed him. He is 33 now, but was 18 when he went. I pray for all the men and women that are fighting this battle even after the war.Better is the ending of a matter than its beginning......
god bless ya man! get some peace in life
please look up Peter Levine, PhD in psychology, he has worked with many veterans and helped a lot of them :) ua-cam.com/video/nmJDkzDMllc/v-deo.html his speciality is trauma and ptsd, used to work with nasa and the military. His stuff is called somatic experiencing, and includes the stress responses of the body togheter with the mind.
You do realize that it was highly plausible that King David used narcotics like opium. During that time in history opium was the main plant grown for PTSD. Alexander the great grew opium. Opium never really cured Alexander, he was a violent drunkard until death. Julius Cesar grew opium. Ancient Egypt is a used it as schools taught that opium works. Ancient Egyptians taught their children in school that opium it takes away fear. Now the government gives you medical cards. With so much historical usage of opium I find it odd only cannabis is researched for PTSD. I recommend cannabis. You will need to grow cannabis until you die. Heh if opium is legal in your country it'd be worth a shot to grow some poppies to see what you can score. Opium kills though. David had to have done drugs. Plant narcotics are well known by that time as King Solomon used cannabis and was burried with it.
This is almost unwatchable.
But we must. It is our duty know what war is before we make any decision concerning its perpetuation or proliferation.
I greatly appreciate you uploading all of these documentaries. They have a wealth of knowledge and enjoyable to a history geek.
Thank you, Stephanie. There's still more to come, so please stay in touch. Regards - Alan.
Imagine living with the memory of seing wounded men being crushed to death by tanks ...
marelicainavokado I know. That part stuck out the most to me. Unfathomable really.
My utmost respect goes to these courageous, wonderful men. I am appalled they had to go through this. Ever so grateful I haven't been through what they have. My complete sympathy goes to these souls.
Great video Thanks for uploading! My grandfather was in WW1 at verdun and have always heard talk about shell shock but never really grasped the severity of it. VERY informative
+Karen smith Thank you, Karen. The companion shell shock film examining the Second World War (also on my channel) is also interesting. Regards - Alan.
I really have difficulty watching this. I simply cannot fathom the camaraderie these men had... Simply dying for their cause, but more importantly, the Brother in Arms next to them. Unfortunately, and god willing, I will never have the honor and privilege of serving next to such brave men. ...
In August 1914, nearly everyone believed The Great War would be over in a few months. Only a few wise commanders such as Lord Kitchener and Winston Churchill realized it would be a long struggle. RIP to all the men who lost their lives in this conflict.
@@jdub2722 That's a lie.
@@letitbeenow Wow, you're weird.....
Dr. Ian Palmer has one of the most soothing voices I've ever heard. I can only imagine how calming it is/was to his patients.
This was a random recommendation on my list And I absolutely loved it! The horror these hero's had to experience is horrible
My grandpa was the officer who sent the dead bodies home from Vietnam..he wouldn’t talk about what he saw , but woke up screaming a lot of nights
So many man were lost to it. It's a great documentary.
This is heartbreaking 😔 horrible to see how broken they are
Poor souls. War is worse than hell.
How did some men make it out of this war appearing mentally unscathed by everything they witnessed, I will never know. It must take a really really special person. I know if I were there I would've totally lost it completely.
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True psychopaths
Everybody who saw combat and death dealt with it the rest of their lives. Back then PTSD wasnt as acknowledged like it is today. Most men had nightmares and flashbacks every day but they were told they had to control it and they would be fine. Trust me there absolutely cannot be someone who was in combat snd killed and witnessed their friends die that dont struggle to deal with those memories. They just bottled it up and kept it inside them
Also they were seen as lunatics and unstsble so many would not let their problems show in fear that they would be locked up in a mental institution
cant even imagine 1 month of constant fighting and in the state of fear let alone 6 months. that's just plain torture!!
i seriously can't imagine being the 'hypnotised' guy with shell shock and hearing the word 'bomb'. instantly goes prone and goes under the bed.
11:57
Fascinating and informative. I'll recommend it to my current veteran buddies.
+Ob Fuscated I agree, it's an important film. You might like to check out the WWII shell shock film, also on my channel. Thanks, Alan.
16:10 what I get from his tellings are do heartbreaking. The longer he recalls, the more in his head he goes, and he sees enough of the horrors to break thought. And in this particular recall, to me it sounds like he used the pencil as the weapon, or it's just the last thing he remembers before he goes blackout
Only recently found my grandfather's discharge papers. Shell shock. He had lied about his age and joined at 16. I don't think anyone in the family knew this, certainly no one ever spoke of it. He was a great man. Brilliant sense of humor. The government rewarded his service with a great education and he was a success by any standard. Breaks my heart to know, at such a young age, the horror he went through. We owe so much to our veterans. Not to other countries. Charity begins at home. House our homeless Veterans!
This is such a reality check. Those people died for our peace, yet we are complaining about school.
How could you call these men coward? Bravery is knowing the odds and having the courage to step up, ride in a charge or to the rescue of a fellow soldier, in WW1 there were no odds, out there randomly with devilish mathematical certainty there was a shell with your name on it, and no amount of courage tactical acumen or physical fitness could save you.
Atrahasis7 the men who called these men cowards never saw or felt the horrors that these men did. Put those men in the trenches for a day and see what they think then.
Calling men cowards for running in front of a blaring machine gun...
13:41 jesus even though its in black in white and poor quality its horrifying to see that guy fall back down limp in the trench
Don’t worry, that particular clip was a re-enactment for the war department for training purposes
Frank Garrett no it wasnt
@@sk8clips845 It was though, most nations made videos like this not only for training and propoganda purposes but so guys, especially the new recruits, who had never engaged in trench warfare before could get a bit of an idea of the tactics being used before they got there. It would be extremely unlikely to have a video camera right behind only a couple of lads going over, if you want to see actual recorded video of going over the top I'd definitely recommend They Shall Not Grow Old if you haven't seen it already!
@@CulverEmpireV27 well even if its a re enactement it really happened many times in the real war
Wow this is a really good doctumentry. Couldn't even begin to imagine the horrors that these men suffered.
Im genuinely crying right now :(. Those poor brave men
My grandad was a paratrooper in ww2 and he was at Arnhem, he watched all his mates being shot out of the sky - but he survived - and struggled with that. Then the poor chap died just before I was born at only 52 😔 life is shit - but - we will meet again. God bless xxxxxxxx
May those men rest in peace.
"A brave soldier doesn't kill because he hates what's in front of him, but because he loves what's behind him"
RIP to WW1 and WW2 soldiers and veterans...
My gpa was in ww2. He never talked about his time in the army, but my mom told me a few things. I remember thinking as a child that him being in the artillery meant he didn’t see much combat. Ww2 artillery…goodness I was a fool. Those boys went through hell and back, just like everyone else running and gunning. He was such amazing man to be around! His mind was sharp as a tack until his early 90s…my GMA died and he went downhill after that. They were married for over 60 years. Possibly 70. Idr. I was lucky to have shaken the hand of a man responsible for ensuring the freedom of all of us who live in this great nation. He was a straight war hero. Rest in peace grandpa.
My grandfather was 17 when he joined the RFC, WW1, then in the RAF in WW11. My father also lied about his age ,17 , on joining the RAF, Bomber Command, Lancasters. Both of these darling men in my life always made me laugh and feel so loved . They never spoke of the Wars . I took English Literature for A level ... World War 1 poets were part of the curriculum. I am ashamed to admit that I never fully understood the message Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon tried to convey. I honour my father and grandfather ..and all who served for our freedom. Thank you .
God Blesss them! Thank you for sharing