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. age 20 to 22. this would be true in a memoir about today. and in a sense, what is the memoir, is what the writer chooses to remember and i suspect if any of the guys were there when i was t