Lawrence A. Marsden > Quotes

“Many of the men brought aboard suffered from “shell shock,” or “combat fatigue,” as it is called in this war. But call it what you like, we did not have to be psychiatrists to realize that the human mind can look at one scene just so long, can absorb meaning and reality to just a certain point. With these men that point had been passed. Their minds had refused to accept the pictures which their senses presented;”
― Lawrence A. Marsden, Attack Transport (Illustrated): The Story of the U.S.S. Doyen