Quotation by Bess Jones

I ... toyed with the idea of going to find another war where I could at least feel alive. I was so numb that it took terror to make me feel anything.
Bess Jones, U.S. nurse. As quoted in the New York Times Magazine, p. 72 (November 7, 1993).

A U. S. Army nurse during the Vietnam War, she was describing the impact of war's trauma after she returned home.
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