U.S. At War: Not Like a Doe

Stars & Stripes turned an angry soldier's eye on "the psychoneurosis fad which is sweeping the country and which is based on the belief that every returning veteran is maladjusted. . . ."

Said the G.I.'s newspaper of home-front goings-on:

"Every screwball with thick lenses and a long haircut is setting up shop as an expert on the returning veteran. If you wife or sweetheart runs behind a good, solid oak table when you finally go bounding in the front door, don't say we didn't warn you."

Many men, Stars & Stripes agreed, will be real psychoneurotic casualties, in need of scientific treatment, but for the great majority:

"We will be happy to sit in front of our fireplaces and let [our wives and sweethearts] fetch us Old-Fashioneds and fried chicken. But not, please God, with the look of a trapped and frightened doe, waiting for the blow to fall."