How does the author describe the symptoms of post-war trauma? How did Hillenbrand display the hardships experienced by veterans of the POW camps?

Hello. This question is about the book "unbroken.

1. The author describes the symptoms of post-war trauma as something agonizing and destructive. This is because it is these symptoms that make ex-prisoners unable to go on with their lives, feel their sanities go away, their marriage is destroyed and they adopt destructive behaviors, such as alcoholism, for example.

2. These difficulties were shown through the character Louis, who, due to the traumas that I have, cannot keep himself within the family, has no economic support, cannot find a job and is at the mercy of luck. This shows how irresponsible governments are for the lives of veterans, giving them no support.

the speech this question is referring to is president kennedy's special message to the congress on urgent national needs, may 25, 1961

kennedy responds in a very direct and concrete way to those thinking that communism is a positive system:

"yet their aggression is more often concealed than open. they have fired no missiles; and their troops are seldom seen. they send arms, agitators, aid, technicians and propaganda to every troubled area. but where fighting is required, it is usually done by others--by guerrillas striking at night, by assassins striking alone--assassins who have taken the lives of four thousand civil officers in the last twelve months in vietnam alone--by subversives and saboteurs and insurrectionists, who in some cases control whole areas inside of independent nations." (kennedy)

president kennedy presents communism as cowardly, as a hidden and treacherous weapon that strikes from the shadows like thieves, he represents the system as not even being capable of showing and open and overt attack or confrontation. to finish up the response, he expresses that the system attacks even a country's idependence and freedom.