we had psychoneurosis. so if you were diagnosed with psychoneurosis, you were a psycho, and nobody wanted that connotation associated with them. i had a brother in the bulge that cracked up, we called it in the marine core, and that was the diagnosis. and when he came home, he would not permit to file a claim with the v.a. for psychoneurosis, because that would mean that he was a psycho. when i received the medal of honor, i had no choice. from the second day on, i became a public figure. i didn't want to be that. i wanted to go back to the farm and dig a hole and get in it. because i had a lot of whatever they term now ptsd, but in those days, as i said, it was psychoneurosis and we had no treatment facilities. we had no psychiatrists, we had no psychologists. we had no v.a. facility that we could even go to. and being forced by the public to talk about what happened to me was the best therapy i could have received. i couldn't pen it up, i couldn't hold it in, i had to let it go. and that helped me tremend

we had psychoneurosis. so if you were diagnosed with psychoneurosis, you were a psycho, and nobody wanted that connotation associated with them. i had a brother that cracked up, we called it, in the marine core and that was the diagnosis and when he came home, he would not permit to file a claim with the va for psychoneurosis, because that would mean that he was a psycho. when i received the medal of honor, i had no choice. from the second day on, i became a public figure. i didn't want to be that. i wanted to go back to the farm and dig a hole and get in it. because i had a lot of whatever they term now ptsd, but in those days, as i said, it was psychoneurosis and we had no treatment facilities. we had no psychiatrists, we had no psychologists. we had no va facility that we could even go to. and being forced by the public to talk about what happened to me was the best therapy i could have received. i couldn't pin it up, i couldn't hold it in, i had to let it go. and that helped me tremendously to adjust ba