The 34-year-old rifleman was a mass of twitching nerves. By Army medical standards, he was a plain NP (neuropsychiatric) case. But by G.I. standards he was a very brave soldier. He doggedly slogged his way through three months of bloody action. By the time he finally collapsed in an Army hospital, he was ready to tell his sorry story of shyness, nervousness, worry. Why had he been such a good soldier? "I forced myself to carry on. All my life I obeyed. I couldn't bring myself to disobey."
Neurotics, playing their own warped perspectives against battlefield dangers, often make better-than-adequate soldiers. A...
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