Soldiers Heart=Shell Shocked=PTSD, A Pyrrhic victory: There is no winning of a war

A Pyrrhic victory is a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat. Someone who wins a Pyrrhic victory has been victorious in some way. However, the heavy toll negates any sense of achievement or profit. Another term for this would be “hollow victory”

The military teaches soldiers how to fight, how to kill, and how to survive; but do they teach them how to live with themselves?

“Soldiers Heart”Â was what people called the emotional and psychological condition men often suffered when they returned from the bloody and surreal battlefields of our American Civil War. After WWI it was called “Shell Shock.”

No matter what time in history, a person”'s experiences of war, that often equate to scenes and memories of unimaginable bloodshed, anger and fear, are with them for the balance of their lives. We all have met veterans who seem to have “handled it differently.” One man went on and another man is broken from the same experience. Both brave soldiers, just different psyches.

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Vine Church had a “moving” experience 124 years ago; 34 years later “converted” to Burma-Shave

BY STEVE SANDBERG

Thanks Alley Newspaper. It was really interesting and fun to read Sarah Silver”'s memoir of being the jingle judge for the Burma shave company nearly sixty years ago. Rest in peace, Sarah, and thank you! And thanks to Knowles Daugherty for connecting Sarah to Alley readers.
It is now April of 2016. In April of 1892, 124 years ago, Vine Congregational Church moved its10 year old church building to 21st Avenue South and East Lake Street [ironically; from Hiawatha and Lake Street), where it still stands covered in white vinyl siding. When I became aware last fall that Minneapolis Public Schools had acquired this site with plans to level it, I knew only of its history as the building where the Burma shave company had begun making their iconic signs and shaving cream from 1926 to 1940, but I now have learned that prior to becoming the Burma shave factory in 1926, it had already been serving the community in various capacities for 43 years! This is more than enough reason to have a proper historic survey done, and on Dec. 10, 2015 the Corcoran Neighborhood Board voted to request this of the current owner Minneapolis Public Schools.… Read the rest “Vine Church had a “moving” experience 124 years ago; 34 years later “converted” to Burma-Shave”