the book begins with a quotation from the german philosopher nietzsche. when there was peace the warlike man attacks himself. that is instructive because it was peace time. this was after korea before vietnam. hospital was essentially empty in yokosuka japan. the psychiatric wards where both full to overflowing. i always wondered if there may be something the use of the word ptsd pre traumatic stress disorder. if i could describe a typical patient, when it comes to mind who is important because later on i will tell you how he tried to kill me. he was a marine. by the way the navy, in case you don't know if this, has a separate unit in the military, a separate branch, the navy takes care of marine medicine. and navy chaplain also serves marines. otherwise the marines are on their own. there used to be a soldier aboard ships. that is why they are called marines. anyway, you want to know why did we have so many people in this place and one thing i want to say, i want to say a word about memoir. i am talking about something that happened half a century ago. a