Shays ideas relating to war in his book Achilles in Vietnam are valid points relating to each of the other readings as they are all related to soldiers and their PTSD in any war or traumatic experience.
Yellow birds is able to prove the points Shay creates about PTSD when the narrator or main character returns home from Iraq, the main character can't even think straight enough to make what we think of as easy no brainer decisions or he does the unthinkable. An example of this is toward the end when he gets drunk to take his mind off of all the what he thought of as brothers who had been killed and how easy it was let them go and he soon gets to the point each time where he can even remember his day. When he wakes up something terrible has
Yellow birds is able to prove the points Shay creates about PTSD when the narrator or main character returns home from Iraq, the main character can't even think straight enough to make what we think of as easy no brainer decisions or he does the unthinkable. An example of this is toward the end when he gets drunk to take his mind off of all the what he thought of as brothers who had been killed and how easy it was let them go and he soon gets to the point each time where he can even remember his day. When he wakes up something terrible has