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Podcast: A Better Peace: The War Room Podcast
Episode: COOK'S 'MIDNIGHT DRAWINGS' AND THEIR HAUNTING VIEWS OF WAR (DUSTY SHELVES)
Description: [COOK SAID,] 'These faces. I didn't get to know all their names. They joined my platoon, and many of them were dead by morning.'
For forty-six years after the Korean War, veteran John A. Cook would be haunted by the memories of fighting and of his fellow soldiers being killed or wounded. What is now recognized as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or PTSD had no name at the time, and veterans like Cook had nowhere to turn to get help. Instead, as the horrific images of war would waken him at night, he began drawing those images on paper...