Comments on: Wa-Po Historians Declare How the Sesquicentennial “Should” Be Observed http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/wa-po-historians-declare-how-the-sesquicentennial-should-be-observed/ A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle Tue, 18 Jun 2013 23:11:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: More on Wa-Po’s Sesqui Ops « Bull Runnings http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/wa-po-historians-declare-how-the-sesquicentennial-should-be-observed/#comment-17295 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:43:15 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=7714#comment-17295 [...] Dmitri  has weighed in on the Washington Post’s panel of historians and their thoughts on the Civil War Sesquicentennial.  Check it out here and here.  As a reminder, I wrote about it here. [...]

]]> By: Susan Evelyn Cole McDowell http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2010/11/16/wa-po-historians-declare-how-the-sesquicentennial-should-be-observed/#comment-17291 Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:49:08 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=7714#comment-17291 I wish you luck with this Harry. All the research I have looked at tends to be very contradictory. I read books on Irvin McDowell which say he was forced to take the Command of the Pacific because of his unpopularity. Other biographers say Irvin McDowell begged for the Command of the Pacific. Which is true?

I loved the CNN piece on the Fire Zouvares. My second husband William Francis Cole is a retired Phoenix firefighter. Our marriage lasted a whole nine months. Bill was the only surviving firefighter pulled out of a building that collapsed after a bad fire and suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. He can not function because of the trauma he suffered from and we divorced about twenty years ago.

I wondered if the New York 11th was paralyzed by a similar disorder. One only has to look at the rapid demise by fire during 9/11 to understand that fire is a fierce and destructive force, second only to flooding. No one but a fireman would unerstand just how rapidly fire can destroy.

There has been very little research into Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and there is not much help for anyone who suffers from it. Most medical research focuses on the big three: cancer, heart attacks, and stokes.

Susan Evelyn McDowell Cole

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