“He spent time in a North Korean POW camp. Did you know that, Ruth? He still has nightmares. He drinks because he thinks it helps him deal with the nightmares.” “You have nightmares. You don’t drink.” “Every man handles in a different way the damage war did to him.”
Everybody wants to tell other people how they should heal the scars on their own body, and they always assume those scars can heal, never considering that some things just don't get better