Ordinary nature walks trigger vivid flashbacks of wartime executions for former soldiers

Evidence

Standing next to a tree with red frozen sap on its bark would bring flashbacks of the many times we executed prisoners by tying them to trees and shooting them. Their blood stained the trees and never washed off, even during the rainy season. — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 764

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 764
• XREF: connects to: Ex-child soldiers experience severe physical pain triggered by traumatic war flashbacks — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 613; War’s ruin intrudes on and dishonors even untouched natural landscapes — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 28; Removing combat exposure reduces soldiers to mere executioners — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 367 (+1 more)

Library Connections

• War’s ruin intrudes on and dishonors even untouched natural landscapes #complicates (0.75) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 28

Broader Connections

• Removing combat exposure reduces soldiers to mere executioners #complicates (0.55) — Grégoire Chamayou, A Theory of the Drone, 367