March 5th, 2012
No soldier should be allowed to think that loss of nervous or mental control provides an honourable avenue of escape from the battlefield, and every endeavour should be made to prevent slight cases leaving the battalion or divisional area, where treatment should be confined to provision of rest and comfort for those who need it and to heartening them for return to the front line.

Report of the British War Office Committee of Enquiry into “Shell-Shock”, 1922. Quoted from Combat stress reaction, from Wikipedia

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  1. blech said: 1922, not 1992, I think. Good find, anyway.
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