He said: "The Vets that I knew were missing something. It would be trite to state that they had lost their soul, because it was more than just that kind of abstraction. They came back different people than the ones that had been sent over there. On the surface, they seemed like the person that they were before the war, but underneath they had changed. There were subtle signs that told of the damage they had suffered as a person: some could not sleep, others closed down into themselves into a place that no one could find or get to. Others took up drugs or drink. Some times these grown men would begin weeping for no apparent reason. Others became violent and lashed out at the ones they loved or just whoever was present then. All of them struggled to regain themselves, but it wasn't hard to tell who was who; it wasn't hard to see that they were different, that they were hurting and that they knew that there would be no turning back, that there would not be a homecoming for them because they left so much of themselves behind back there."

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