AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 11-11-2024

[Music] [Music] w [Music] [Applause] [Music] the guns are quiet now the papers of Peace have been signed and the oceans of the Earth are filled with Ships coming home in Far Away places men dreamed of this moment but for some men the moment is very different from the dream here is human Salvage the final result of all that metal and fire can do to violate mortal flesh [Music] some we the badges of their pain the crutches the bandages the splints others show no outward signs yet they too are wounded this hospital is one of the many for the care and treatment of the psychon neurotic Soldier [Music] these are the casualties of the spirit the troubled in mind men who are damaged emotionally born and bred in peace educated to hate War they were overnight plunged into sudden and terrible situations every man has his breaking point and these in the Fulfillment of their duties as soldiers were forced beyond the limit of human Endurance on behalf of the commanding officer and his staff of Mason General Hospital I want to extend a hearty welcome to all of you on your return to the United States there's no need to be alarmed at the presence of these cameras as I making a photographic record of your progress at this Hospital from the date of admission the date of discharge here are men who tremble men who cannot sleep men with pains that are nonetheless real because they are of mental origin men who cannot remember paralyzed men whose paralysis is dictated by the Mind however different the symptoms these things they have in common unceasing fear and apprehension a sense of impending disaster a feeling of hopelessness and utter [Music] isolation may I have your last name how do you spell that last name pleas [Music] the psychiatrists listen to the stories of the men who tell them as best they can the names and places are different the circumstances are different but through all the stories runs one thread death and the fear of death and then after you got wounded what happened same thing only worse no like nerv keep getting worse they get worse need they bom yeah I got killed nearly morning you nearly got killed where were you at the time St L believe somewh some I remember what were you what were you doing when the planes came over I was in a hole you know where you are think I'm in the state now they told me I was coming back but they told me I was going to die on the hospital I would e hard six I need to me going die but didn't eat help care where I not we will see if you don't die you won't die I lost my last buddy up there little Norman he was second scoutman I was first Scout they all mixed up up there they shelling us what did that make you nervous I I should first I'm first Scout I should have been out in the front and he went out and I started to go out after him and he got shot and he he he just said oh that I'm hit me CW my feet and and I start calling for the medic and I went back to see if we get the medic and there wasn't any and I started to go out after him again and they wouldn't let me go and he was the last one of the original boys that that was with me him and I were the last two left and out of the original and when you were sheld how did you feel I don't know it's just after Norman got got hurt killed by ior right when we were moving up or attacking or anything like that when we get pinned down I start thinking about him laying back there and and then what happened to you when you think about him how would you feel I just didn't care what happened to me you mean you didn't want to go back into combat again yes sir I wanted to go back I wanted to stay there I wanted to keep mind for him and all them other guys John and Striker and Tex and Popp and how do you feel right now I feel all right have you been getting along well fairly well sir mhm you were overseas yes sir where uh we were in France and then we went to Germany in where France to Germany and what uh houset were you with I was with headquarters Detachment 50th Quarter Master Battalion mobile mhm I see your PFC at present uh you went had to go in the hospital sir you had to go in the hospital twice sir it says here on your record from overseas that you had headaches and that you had crying spells yes sir uh I believe in your profession is called nostalgia in other words homesickness yes sir MH it was induced when shortly before the War I received a picture of my sweetheart yeah M I'm sorry I can't continue that's all right rff Griff yes sir uh come on and sit down a minute now a display of emotion is all right I'm not doing this deliberately so please believe me I I do believe you um a display of emotion is sometimes very helpful I hope so sir sure it gets it off the chest you wouldn't uh you wouldn't be here you wouldn't have been returned uh there as a patient there wasn't something upsetting you yes now you say you had had received a letter from your um not a letter sir a photograph a photograph yes what what what about that now well sir to be perfectly honest with you I'm very much in love with my sweetheart she has been the one person that gave me a sense of importance in that through her cooperation with me we were able to surmount so many obstacles what happened well when I was in combat m h can you speak louder I hearing you uh during the time I got worried that my brother he was killed on a canal oh was the a marine yes now I noticed in this uh history here that you saw a vision of your brother what uh tell me something about that what what happened oh I I guess it was a dream or something well Describe the dream what what did you see in the dream I I Dr that I was home my brother was home my other brother was home we all home all of you were home sitting around a table everybody was happy we were laughing you know talking just admiring each other's and then it ended there you can see these images clearly yeah course like in a dream see yeah uh what about this meno thing that you're telling me about well I in menar after I got that mov I I I was I me I was scared you wer scared I I don't know I sometimes I I hope something what happened then again I say well something did happen what do you mean by something happened you mean you were hoping that you'd be wounded and sent back is that what you mean no what do you mean by that I meant that I I hope that just you know I always so disgusted and tired of everything I just didn't feel like living and then I Chang my mind and I think back my folks and it be a double blow something happen to me and I'll be standing God sitting on a machine man watching and I I'd hear a long noise and I let go shoot wasn't nothing probably was in animal any noise made yourside and you just shoot at that time yes do you feel worried about anything now uh I don't know are you mixed up kind of what's that pen on your shirt my heart why do you cover those up aren't you proud of them yes sir you got a Purple Heart your campaign ribbons yes sir but why do you cover them up you there must be some reason for you doing that what happened over there we got in the scrape and I was in the house just got off the guard it's Friday the 13th and sweating out all day Patrol came up and ger Patrol and they shut a a pen of first through the wall well and what uh I I was laying on a couch and right before it happened I felt a little Jey to lay down on the floor and when I when I got up again the couch was all torn in other words you were almost killed is that it uh I yeah most must gone right over my head do you feel conscious is are you aware of the fact that you are not the same boy that you were when you went over do you feel changed yes in what way uh more jumpy how about with people I used to I used to always like that fun now I used to always be going places I don't like to do nothing no more how long were you overseas 11 months 11 months were you in any combat at all 6 months I tried uh every every way to keep my mind occupied reading uh going to the gymnasium getting uh going out with fellas and trying to try to become an extrovert try to get out of myself but uh it seemed to me I got worse and worse and uh after a while I I developed the after the fear S I started developing fears of different sorts did you ever have similar pains before you got never in my life have you ever been nervous before in your life no sir never I was a solid man the sudden noises bother you particularly I did just shake a little bad well I guess I just got tired of loving you put it that way I had trouble sleeping yes had a dreaming of combat you know I just took off because I I seen too many my my buddy's gone and and I figure the next one was for me a man can just stand so much up there see admission note pool p o o l e comma Walter L T5 transfer diagnosis anxiety reaction severe active symptoms in remission [Music] on this their first night back in the States each man who is able may make a longdistance call without cost after months and years of Silence familiar voices are heard once again then each man makes for himself a small home which will be his for the eight or 10 weeks to come [Music] now in the darkness of the ward emerg the shapes born of Darkness the terror of things half remembered dreams of battle the torments of uncertainty and fear and [Music] loneliness the day begins with an early morning Ward inspection the medical officer in charge checks the condition of every man modern Psychiatry makes no sharp division between the mind and the body physical ills often have psychic causes just as emotional ills may have a physical basis possibilities of organic disturbance in the brain are investigated by means of the electroencephalograph the roar shock test the things that the patient's imagination sees in these cards give significant Clues to his personality [Music] makeup this looks sort of like a drawing of two women standing on a rock and waving their [Music] hands this man suffering from a conversion hysteria requires immediate treatment organically sound his paralysis is as real as if it were caused by a spinal lesion but it is purely psychological well just s him up about the middle of the bed there feel pretty good though that's fine now sit yourself over [Applause] there well now can you move over just a little so I can talk to you yes now what is the trouble you think it be what's that that's no no yes make me Flinch like that I see how long's that been going on since Friday Friday Friday night come on suddenly or gradually suddenly sir how when I stopped in the afternoon with client bells and uh felt something funny on my shoulders here back bother me I started crying lost control my legs in my arms was there any reason for crying spells don't no sir H anything happened at home to bother you well my mother's been ill she has been illes that worry you a lot quite a bit well now has this got anything to do with your mother's illness any reason why you should have that kind of reaction no sir not that I know of unless my mother's illness might have rep this on I try to holding while it hurts but I see you've just been holding these things in that's right sir no way you can control this at all no sir well now we're going to have to help you do that of course let's take off this jacket here just slip that off all right now lie down on the bed shoes right now we leave the shoes on so you can walk in them I think we're going to get you walking let's come over here that's the boy that's fine that's good now you lie steady I steady that's the boy this is all going to go away is I give you this medicine no bother at all the method employed here is effective in certain types of acute cases an intravenous injection of sodium amatol induces a state similar to hypnosis what I told pet that is you might I look this way you look that way nothing for you to watch here but you're going to talk to me as we go along yes sir that's all now you're not going to feel much of anything else you're going to feel a little bit the use of this drug serves a two-fold purpose like hypnosis it is a shortcut to the unconscious mind as a surgeon probes for a bullet the psychiatrist explores the submerged regions of the Mind attempting to locate and bring to the surface the emotional conflict which is the cause of the patient's distress the second purpose of this drug is to remove through suggestion those symptoms which impede the patient's recovery now tell me a little bit about what you're thinking of the thoughts are coming to your mind now nothing in particular well now let's go back let's go back to Friday Friday yeah I'll think about that Friday my mother argues with me your mother argues with you yeah mhm what does she argue about well every little thing if you sit down in a wrong chair or something like that doesn't like the stuff you get in the store uhhuh and she calms down I see have you always tried to please her yes time always tried to please her used to clean her house for her I was a small well now why do you think she always like her think she sick well she doesn't try to control a temple I see mhm how about your father he's a swell guy he a swell fell gets kind of hot tempered since my mother's been sick it's been costing a lot of money mhm and he lost a lot of weight about worrying I see my mother I is with him she I know where the money is MHM but I don't care about that as long as everything turns out all right well now uh this jumping what does that make you think of think about it a minute I can't help but it just jumps uhhuh how about the legs do you know anybody who had any trouble with their legs like that no sir make you think of come on except several several years ago uhhuh there was one fell he had something wrong with his right leg M Waring the knee but he's walking today that doesn't blind me was that anything like your leg I don't know he couldn't walk at all he couldn't walk at all no what do you think of when you can't walk like that I wish I could walk mhm but what do you think of what comes to your mind when you find that you can't walk so maybe I think my mom and father should be okay sometimes I wonder hope the war end soon things like that nothing in particular mhm now the shakes are going now haven't we yeah how about your legs they're good and strong I feel all right move them let's raise them all I going say we raising them before but they can't walk how about them now they feel all right they feel good now as if you can walk in them don't they toes feel numb toes feel numb but that's going away isn't it yeah jeez raising them fine isn't it yeah now you're going to be able to walk aren't you I don't know well you're going to aren't you yes sir all right going walk I love walking you love walking I always been very fond of walking now you found yourself unable to walk now you going to get right up and walk right now all right now let's sit up sit up on the side of the bed here you are that's fine all right now stand up and look at that is that good all right now walk out here walk over to the nurse all by yourself that's the boy walk over to the nurse you're just a little woozy that's the medicine now come back to me come back to me open your eyes that's the boy is that fine is that wonderful sure all right now again once more yeah but how long are we going to be oh it's going to stay that way it's going to stay because that's taking care of your worry now all right now come on back to me and I'm going to let you go to sleep when you wake up you'll keep on walking perfectly well how about it thanks sir right all right now let's get up in here and we'll to sleep now there you are now I'm going to have you go right to sleep when wake up it'll be all right thanks all right sleep Gerard the fact that he can walk Now does not mean that his Neurosis has been cured that will require time but the way has been open for the therapy to [Music] follow now a new way of living begins very different from the old one whose purpose was killing and trying not to be killed now in an environment of peace and safety all the violence behind them they are building rather than destroying men have their choice of Occupational Therapy some find relaxation in mechanical jobs certain types of cases obtain relief in Precision work which answers their inner need for order and certainty for sons and daughters and nieces and nephews and neighbors kids hobby horses are turned out by the car loved physical reconditioning is not the only purpose in sports which also serve to bring men out of their emotional isolation and back into group activity one of the most important procedures is group Psychotherapy here under the psychiatrist's guidance the patient learns to understand something of the basic causes of his distress as one of a group he also learns to understand that his inner conflicts are with very ations common to all men and I think of it a little bit like this we want to get you out of your own feeling of isolation to get you to feel that you are like other people in order to get to that we have to use knowledge as one thing and something else which uh has to be added that is an experience of safety you could say it is almost the cor of all our treatment methods development of knowledge of oneself with the accompanying safety that brings I'd like to see if we can get some illustrations of how one's personal safety would stem from childhood safety and how the childhood safety self would stem from the parents safety U and my illustration was that as a child um whenever I I under what any experiences that were frightening to me I never told my parents I kept it to myself while I was alone at night in my room i' call on God if I had done anything wrong that I was ashamed of I was ashamed to go to my parents and tell them uh what I had done so I kept it to myself and I used to I know I used to be in constant fear that my parents would find out my feelings well I wonder if there's any of your mother's troubles that you would know about no I'm uh my mother never uh gave any of her children any any part of her troubl well that would be the same thing that happened to you she didn't tell her troubles and you didn't tell yours you took your troubles to God and she probably did the same thing probably didn't even confide in your father in other words the kind of method that you use to get relief from anxiety was really we'd have to assume learned and felt right in your home the same kind of thing I think it was all caused by uh economic conditions all the world I mean people trying to comp uh compete one another trying to get a better job trying to keep up with uh Uprising living things like that of course a lot of arguments in the home mother and father arguing about the price of the food that has a reflection on the children things that so I think that was one of the was it wor not having enough food to eat or the arguments between the I mean there was which was the worst though well I guess aru sure they of course they AR CU I can't remember about the food there you are you can't even remember about the food or the lack of food I have in mind my own childhood we uh coming from a mod family moderate in the sense that uh the family had some sense of security what happened there was we were told that uh we I mean my myself my brothers and sisters we couldn't just play with any of the kids we wanted to play with uh unless their parents in turn had the equivalent of what our parents had and as a result we were kept in a narrow Circle very very narrow however uh I have found that there has been a strong yearning on my part to break out of this environment to be able to uh play with t can har i' say the net results like this your mother did not feel really so Superior she felt inferior when she tried to make you take the attitude you were better than the other children so that now in certain experiences in the Army have brought that out more clearly because you've been thrown in with Tom and Nick and Harry and need to get along with them it's not necessary to be in the the Army it's not necessary to to be in the war these kind of troubles have always gone on in all time to all the centuries you going to say something I've never spoke until I was seven is that right yes and I studied very bad at 14 and 15 I couldn't recite in school today I to talk can you explain how you get started to talk how you began to get over that uh doing during the war the first word I ever spoke um Santa Claus had brought me a a war gun and my brother broke it this the first yes yes so are and your brother broke when I went to get my gun I was I just says W death somebody broke my gun that was the first thing I said you were angry because someone broke your gun so that's the way I started talk I would say all those symptoms like being unable to speak stuttering and so on they have an underlying anger and resentment in the deeper parts of the personality you could almost say like this underneath I can't you usually find I won't on OK I was stting too about 3 weeks and as soon as I came here the month now I stopped studying you've stopped studying completely since you came here that's good I don't know whe that's a tribute to the doctors or tribute to your fundamental Health to my fundamental self no no tribute to the doctors at all very [Laughter] good some patients require special therapy hypnosis is often effective in certain types of battle Neurosis such as Amnesia this man does not even remember his own name a shell burst in Okala wiped out his memory the experience was unendurable to his ious mind which rejected it and along with it his entire past through hypnotic suggestion the psychiatrist will attempt to revoke them relax completely and uh put your mind on going to sleep all right now keep your eyes on mine keep your eyes on mine and keep them fixed on mine keep your mind entirely on falling asleep you're going to go into a deep sleep as we go in you're going to go into deep sleep as we go in now clasp your hands in front of you clasp them tight tight tight tight tight they're getting Tighter and Tighter and Tighter and as they get tighter you're falling asleep as they get tighter you're falling asleep your eyes are getting heavy heavy now your hands are locked tight you're locked tight they're locked tight you can't let go they're locked tight you can't let go when I snap my fingers you'll be able to let go when I snap my finger you'll be able to let go and then you'll get sleepier and your eyes are getting heavier now your eyes are getting heavier heavier heavier you're going into a deep deep sleep going into a deep deep sleep deep asleep far asleep eyes now closed tight closed tight going to a deep deep sleep deeply relaxed far asleep you're far asleep you're far asleep now you're in a deep sleep you have no fear no anxiety no fear no anxiety now you're in a deep deep sleep now just sit down in the chair behind you sit down in the chair behind you lean back head now Falls forward into a deep deep sleep head now is falling forward you're going further and further and further asleep I stroke your left arm become rigid like a bar steel and you'll go further asleep and further asleep falling further and further and further asleep rigid cannot be bent or relaxed when I touch the top of your head I touch the top of your head that arm will relaxed and the other will be become rigid you'll go further asleep you'll be in a very deep sleep and your sleep is deeper and deeper now when I touch this hand my finger will be hot I touch this hand my finger will be hot you will not be able to Bear it your arm is rigid and now as I touch your hand you will no longer feel any pain there it'll be normal now the arm is relaxed and you're further and further and further asleep now you're deep asleep we're going back we're going back now going back to okanawa going back to okanawa you can talk you can talk you can remember everything you can remember everything you're back on okanawa tell me what you see tell me speak I'm in The Battery area you're in The Battery area go on tell me what's going on getting fire missions you're getting fire missions go on you see everything now clearly getting shells thrown at of us you're getting shells thrown out of you from where Jabs Jabs go on yes of us keep on on you remember it all now every bit of it coming back Jeff's getting near us to get our position Jeff's getting near you to get your position go on told us to get cover who told you to get cover BC BC go on there's five of us one of the boys got hurt one of the boys got hurt Tak him away I want to my comption yes go on you remember it now tell me it's all right now but you can tell me you can tell me explosion yes you remember the explosion now all right go on you car they're carrying you who's carrying you I don't know where are they taking you okay cross the field across the field go on put me in this stretch yes yes go on let's go let the thr sh yes can you hear them yes you see them no all right where are they taking you now put in a Chun M why are you fearful now you don't want anymore you want to forget it but you're going to remember it because it's gone now it's gone you're back here now you're away from okanawa you've forgotten it but you remember who you are now who are you D Dolly that's right full name now Dominic Dy Dominic Dy that's right you know your mother's name Isabel that's right fathers that's fine you know who they all are now all right now you're coming back with us this is going to stay with you you're going to remember it all you're going to remember about okanawa you're going to remember about the shells and the bombs but they're gone you're at eased and relaxed there's no fear no anxiety when I wake you up you'll be comfortable relaxed no pains and no aches but you'll remember all that I've told you all that you've remembered you can wait [Music] now well our under the guidance of the psychiatrist he is able to regard his experience in its true perspective as a thing of the past which no longer threatens his safety now he can remember well half Meister what's your trouble H hot hot hot need to get get my words words out yeah it does seem to be a bit tough how long have you had that trouble it started about month month ago where were you then in uh France in France have you been in combat yes well maybe we can help you talk a bit better you can tell me more about it then right let's lie down and see if we can't help you on that this man is not a chronic stutterer he suffers from a battle tension which the drug will attempt to diminish like the man who could not walk and the man who could not remember his illness has an emotional basis it all comfortable now and relaxed we're just going to give you some medicine here that's going to help limmer up that tongue of yours and this is going to make you feel a bit groggy well now tell me now how do you feel now h make any difference in your feel oh how it's just like seventh heaven what is it tell me about it what I can talk that's fine is I can talk I can talk that's good boy listen I can talk oh god listen I can talk oh there's nothing wrong oh god listen all right it's coming back now you're going to take it easy just oh listen I can talk just the way you always did that right God listen God I can talk just the way you always did P Meister keep right on with it now nice let's take it easy now just talk just a little lightly now tell me you got any idea why you couldn't talk before what's coming to your mind now H tell me what's coming to your mind now what is it in your mind when you couldn't talk what is it that stopped it something came through there and stopped it what is it now think quickly think deeply let's go back when was it you lost your speech had your trouble talking go back quickly seems that I I I first noticed it on a boat on a boat coming over it first started with a n and the fellow's laughed at me I don't know why they laughed till the guy started well let's start with that s let's go back to that s now what were you thinking then what was in your mind then right now no then on the boat yes with that s when you wouldn't say that s right yes yes the port side port side port side mhm port side of the ship what side's that that would be the left side left side that's right yeah I remember mhm of course we were up there that afternoon and we saw the fishes and we had some flying fishes I came down he said I was telling a fellow underneath me about the ports that I had seen some flying fishes on a port side mhm he tried telling them about the flying fishes and he stumbled over the S sound and the fellows laughed at him think hard s s what does s remind him of s s he remembers it is the sound he fears the sound of death in combat the sound of a German 88 high explosive shell coming in now it is possible to proceed to the basic method of psychiatric treatment discussion and understanding of the underlying causes of his symptom as the weeks pass the therapy begins to show its effect the shock and stress of War are starting to wear off for these men are blessed with the natural regenerative powers of Youth now they are living Less in the past and more in the present sometimes they think of the future War years must be put aside and the responsibilities of Peace must be considered a man might open a filling station or a hardware store or he can buy a few acres of land and raise some chickens you might even go back to school visitor's day now the men resume their contact with the world outside these are the people they are coming back to whose lives are bound up with theirs without their understanding all that has been accomplished in the last few weeks can be torn down with it their return to life can be doubly Swift and sure classes in group Psychotherapy continue the men are thinking of themselves in relation to society how will they fit into the post-war pattern how will the world receive them uh you fellows have had a an opportunity to be home with your family since you've returned from overseas have you noticed any change in the various members of your family toward you and their reactions toward you but I found out after 4 years of absence that it only took me the second day to be really relaxed and I was right chumy again with my dad and talked about the old neighborhood and the new changes I I don't know it surprised me you feel that your family has to be taught how to treat you when you come back no absolutely not how do you want to be treated by your family the same uh I was treated before I went to the service no difference you don't want to be treated any differently no I was talking to one uh man and uh I said what do you uh think of us follow that come back with secondy rosis anxiety state and I says you can see that we're not uh Crazy by any means he says well my before I come out here to see he says uh my first impression was like in Belle he said Fells from the last border they're completely Maniacs he said that was my first impression I'm wondering if uh I mean uh the Great percentage of the people are going to be like that when we get out that that is a common concern among uh service men who have developed nervous conditions during their stay in the Army uh as to what the public is going to think about them undoubtedly there will be people on the outside who won't have any understanding of the condition who may think of it as being a rather shameful condition that's why we're having having an educational program trying to educate the public into understanding unfortunately most of you fellows have gone through some very severe stresses in the Army uh stresses that civilians are rarely subjected to in civilian life you can avoid serious stresses if a civilian the average civilian were subjected to similar stresses he undoubtedly would have developed the same type of nervous condition that most of you fellas developed all of us have our so-called breaking point and a survey outside showed that civilians on the whole were more nervous than soldiers on Park Avenue for instance where some of your richest people live most most of the patients are people who suffer from nervous disorders and if the doctor won't give them a pill why they'll go out and say well he's not a good doctor so therefore they're given pills and they take them at home they take these pills at home because the hospitals are too full if the hospitals were empty they'd be in a sanitarium or so forth haven't uh been through n of these discussions like the other men have I know that we have learned uh the basis of how we've gotten nervous some of us uh through combat and some of us by not being in combat and I think and I'm sure that we have a better understanding of our conditions and I'm pretty grateful of being here at Mason General Hospital like a lot of Fells are I just so happen is I couldn't walk and they made me walk I couldn't walk when I arrived and I was here 24 hours and they made me walk I feel pretty grateful to get in my limbs bag but that isn't driving that it's that uh I know that uh when I get out of here and the other fellas do too we're going to try our best to make ourselves uh as best we can and uh we feel more confident than the the grasp this nervous situation has come about us and we want to show people that we can do things on our own on the outside whether we've been in the hospital for nurse or mental wherever we've been whe we lost arm or leg that we can be just as good as anybody else all I want is that they give us a chance to prove our equality like they said they were I hope they keep their promise that's all I hope would you make it a point to tell your employer that you were a psychon neurotic well if he's an intelligent man which most wellknown employers are that own large concerns why he's going to react the same as any other normal human being would he's going to say it's absolutely possible and the man right now looks all right I'll try them out but uh you may run into employers who are not that broad-minded or intelligent yes sir and I'll sell myself to them how about you Hofmeister do you have any plans about jobs or do you have any fears about getting a job or there whatsoever I've got my job waiting for sir you have your job waiting for you I think it comes down to this doesn't it that uh most of you fellows feel that you ought to be honest with your employer that you have nothing to hide nothing to be ashamed of isn't that the general attitude yes sir that's the way all your time in the service was not entirely wasted you have learned a great deal in the service for instance a great many jobs and tasks that you've learned to do in the service that you have had absolutely no contact with in the past you've also learned to work in group uh something that every Soldier learns to do very early in his military career this definitely will be of much value to you in your future civilian employment the weeks have slipped by fast the first strangeness of Hospital life has become routine sometimes a man learn something new the ranger always did want to play guitar [Music] [Applause] [Music] and now the days begin to seem long there's the old healthy sound of belly aching in the air spinach spinach again and how about a good movie for a change and how about putting some ice cream in the ice cream soda no longer is a man shut up within the only recesses of himself he is breaking out of his prison into life the life that lies ahead offering infinite possibilities for happiness and sorrow how does a man find happiness is there a secret to discover what is the mysterious ingredient that gives joy and meaning to living you know in the Bible where it says man does not live by bread alone children don't grow up well without safety and confidence if that wasn't in one's childhood in growing up you could say now there's something missing during all that time and the next question is how to supply it and it does need to be supplied not all of the learning in all of the books is half as valuable in getting over nervousness as to find someone that you steam that you can learn to feel safe with where you can get a feeling of being accepted of cherish where you get a feeling that you are worthwhile and that you are important to something you could say the feeding that you didn't get that's something more than bread when you were little you still need to get it you still need to be fed with acceptance and to find the safe D in other words knowledge alone is not [Music] enough got it get get 8 weeks have passed what about these men are they ready for discharge how complete is their recovery how about the boy in right field I just didn't care what happened to me how about the kid at b b was covered by dirt and I was covered up for 29 hours afterwards till have found [Music] me out tell you're out I said you're out how about the [Music] Umpire need to get get my words words out you're out go on better up how about this [Music] kid how about him [Music] [Applause] [Music] are they well enough to be discharged that is for the doctors to decide at tomorrow's boarding [Music] the answer is yes man this is your last military formation today you're returning to your homes your families and friends many of you have been looking forward eagerly to this day but remember that when you reenter civilian life on your shoulders Falls much of the responsibility for the post-war world may your lives as civilians be as worthy as your records as soldiers good health good fortune and Godspeed l [Music] la [Music] [Applause]