bombs in order to determine the level of health among survivors. The survivors of these bombings range in age from 75-92, with both veterans and non-veterans included. Non-veteran's experiences are often overlooked, however their levels of health were similar to those who had seen combat. This suggests that non-veteran's experiences with PTSD can be just as severe, and therefore important, as that of veteran's experiences. The following anonymous quote is one of many from the 2011 research that suggests that the trauma seen within WWII has a strong relationship to a lifetime of PTSD.There were too many kids in the water. And it's hard to pass up someone in the water. We saw real early on that . . . the ones that were squished bad . . . you couldn't get em' in the launch. You couldn't do nothing for em' . . . We took loads of em' and we could hold about 60 . . . In the meantime, we went back out and it just kept repeatin' itself. The above quote is from a veteran who experienced the bombing at Pearl Harbor, which was a traumatic event that influenced both veteran and non-veteran development of PTSD. See also Post-traumatic stress disorder Combat stress reaction Psychological trauma National trauma Complex post-traumatic stress disorder Old sergeant's syndrome References Post-traumatic stress disorder