Re: Young Indy Trenches of Hell Question

Posted by FT from s18.Pm2.t-one.net on January 28, 2000 at 18:03:26:

In Reply to: Young Indy Trenches of Hell Question posted by Brett (Maverick) Lambert on January 28, 2000 at 15:10:52:

: There's something in Trenches of Hell, I don't entirely get. What's
: the crazy Belgian's (the one with the scar) motivation. Is he
: mentally ill? Playing an act? What do you guys think?

Perhaps it was caused by shell shock. This was when the troops would be defenseless sitting in their trenches, with the enemy ammunition exploding just feet from them, and all they could do was duck and pray that nothing would happen. Most of the troops would have high anxeity, and loss of concetration. This was the first time in a war that the medical staff included doctors that would treat only mental wounds. To releive the stress of "shell shock", they would rotate those soldiers who had the symptoms up to the side battle lines along with wounded officers.

And also maybe he suspected that Indy was American (I don't recall what year the story took place).

- PT

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