During the War many an able soldier suffered from “shell shock.” After hours of bombardment men would become madly hysterical. Exploding shells would throw men through the air or bury them under ...

SOME of the saddest results of the war are the cases of ‘shell-shock,’ of which a distressing instance was given in the Atlantic Monthly for December, 1921. But the term ‘shell-shock’ was used to ...

Shell-shock went from being considered a legitimate physical injury to being a sign of weakness, of both the battalion and the soldiers within it. One historian estimates at least 20 percent of men ...

Two years ago, Damonte Dodd joined a group of former Wichita State men’s basketball players who called themselves “AfterShocks” and finished among the top eight teams in The Basketball Tournament. The ...