that a traumatic experience like being
bombed would have the same effect on
everyone: that the only difference
between near misses and remote misses
would be the degree of trauma they
suffered.
But to MacCurdy, the Blitz proved
that traumatic experiences can have two
completely different effects on people:
the same event can be profoundly
damaging to one group while leaving
another better off. That man who
worked in a button factory and that
young woman whose house was shaken
by the bomb were better off for their
experience, weren’t they? They were in
the middle of a war. They couldn’t
change that fact. But they were freed of
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