1. Factors and Responses to Combat Exhaustion
Before the United States' involvement in the war, many young American men were living everyday lives, but now were being forced to leave everything behind to go fight for their country. ... Some mental stresses the soldiers experienced were the loneliness or the feeling of solitude, the risk of death, the taking of another man's life, the sheer amount of death they saw, and irregular routines. ... The death covered front lines were compared to life in Paris as, "hell to heaven.... Another mental stress soldiers dealt with was not the possible fate of dying, but the act of killin...
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