pstrongem10 andbr a Silver Star...embr emA Sardonic Saga of PTSDemstrongppJust as WWII gave us emCatch 22em and Korea produced emMASHem, Vietnam delivers em10 cents and a Silver Starem. No one can laugh off the incredibly cruel Vietnam War, but Bruce Johnson's sardonic antidote to the plague of PTSD helps recover the truth - if you don't laugh, you'll cry.ppAn unworldly young man volunteers to be drafted early. He ventures into the essence of an old combat adage emWar is long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terrorem. His life is devoured by terror. He dresses it up with outlandish humor as an antidote to PTSD. A haunted life laughed at.ppA tough fatherly sergeant orders him to lie low in filthy muck as gunships rip into ambushing enemies. He lives another day, one day at a time, for 13 endless months. It's never over for the young man who came home with a sardonic 'attitude' and a Silver Star for valor. It's not even his.ppPTSD Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder spins