To the editor:
I take offense at that letter from Linda Williams in last week’s paper dishonoring Pvt. Williams just before he was to be buried. It could have a negative impact on the ceremony.
The letter states that he was this and he was that in 1871, when divorced. This man had been through five battles including Gettysburg, who knows what happened to him?
Today we would call it Battle Fatigue, PTSD, and to dishonor him in this way without knowing all the facts is wrong. Does anyone know what he was like before he left for the war?
Today we have help for people with PTSD, back then they were just kicked out in the street and told to go home. Without knowing the whole story, it is just plain wrong to dishonor this man in this fashion.
John McCready
Hodgdon
