But we were like people in Babel. This was way before quasi-sciences had proof, and thetecould be casual collaboration in fluid situation. It was years before terminology like "PTSD" too. But friends and colleagues worked through the seeming "continental divide" between creativity and fact-making. Dropping chemical weapons on us and blitzing "crowds" with confusion-making ordinary-looking objects only made matters worse for a while.
People kept working on books and movies to help explain things after things had happened. But because there's continuation in concepts like ethnicity and warring, an actual exploding gas-filling-an-area basketball was a turning point in how we had to understand ourselves as a "nation" in a world of nation and territory and all that people and place--cultural--stuff.
We had chains of command in every not alone. And "emotional care" teams of counselors and analysts. We dialed it down intergenerationally.
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