Battle Scars
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fn1 Lt Col. David Grossman, On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (Bay Back Books, 2009).
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fn1 I later learned that a couple of blokes had sought out private mental-health care in order to keep their problems off the records.
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fn1 I later started working with Matthew ‘Ollie’ Ollerton (a soon-to-be member of the Who Dares Wins team on Channel Four) at Break-Point, a company running outdoor adventure courses that took their cue from some of the work we did in military. It turned out there was some good money to be made in putting civilians through their paces and teaching them the skills required to survive in the wilderness.
fn2 Alex’s report from that session makes for interesting reading: ‘He said he’s still committed to working with ex-servicemen and rethinking PTSD,’ she wrote. ‘I noticed (to him) that he seems to have a very good idea of what he wants to do. There seems to be a clear picture and I wondered what he was scared of. He agreed and said he thought he could do wilderness training stuff and he thought he would be good at it. He said he felt anxious because he didn’t have clinical experience or training and would want someone involved that was qualified. I felt that Jason was intimating my involvement and I stated explicitly that I was wondering if that’s what he meant. I felt like he was saying something without naming it.
‘I explained those things were generally not appropriate dynamics of a therapy-to-patient relationship because sometimes it’s easy to become disempowered, believing that you need that person for everything. But I noticed why it would make sense to him, knowing the work he did.’
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fn1 Barry’s claims that the silver ingot was part of Kidd’s infamous treasure haul were later dismissed by a team from UNESCO – the cultural wing of the United Nations. ‘What had been identified as the Adventure Galley of the pirate Captain Kidd has been found … to be a broken part of the Sainte-Marie port constructions,’ claimed the report. ‘No ship remains have been found. Also the metal ingot, recovered apparently from the above site, is not a “silver treasure”, but is constituted of 95 per cent lead. It does not contain silver and has been identified as a lead-ballast piece.’