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ABC:LHS #076-2   Post Traumatic Stress Disorder...

...evolved from nostalgia and soldier's heart to shell shock and battle fatigue and the thousand yard stare. 

• W. Griffin Gribbel was a wealthy Chestnut Hill businessman and Great War veteran whose wealth, career, and family could not save him from his post-war nightmares. His behavior often got so out of control that he had to be confined in an asylum. After a minor plane accident in 1929, he threatened everyone in his house with his collection of firearms. When a police officer came to the house to help take him away, Gribbel shot and killed the man, but was acquitted at his trial.