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He had his nightmares.

Patricia Angstadt, Daughter of a Veteran with PTSD, talks about the signs of PTSD that she saw.

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Working around the clock as he did, I think he might've had

four to five hours of sleep every night.

I am sure that he was so exhausted

he didn't have time to think about it.

And I believe, now that I've heard him tell stories about it,

now, over the years, I now know that he probably --

the only time he had even time to think about it

is when he was sleeping, and that's when he

had his nightmares, and his cold sweats,

and episodes of his arms flailing, and all of that.

And I believe that that was because he was just

too exhausted in the daytime to even

be able to cope with worrying about the war,

or even thinking about it or reflecting on it.

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