"In general, there is a feeling of a need to "make peace" with the world, with themselves, and with their sense of self-in-the-world. In other in-stances, there is simply a need to make peace with the psychological disparity felt by them between the values which they were taught as a child and the subsequent violation of these values on a massive basis during the war, either by themselves or by what they observed in others."

Journal of Traumatic Stress Vol. 5 No.2 1992
The Impact of Combat Trauma Across the Family Life Cycle
Douglas J. Scaturo and Peter M. Hayman