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Nowadays, the American idiom "Vietnam flashbacks" is used to hyperbolically refer to remembering troubling events, derived from PTSD experienced by Vietnam war veterans. Before the Vietnam war, were there similar idioms referencing the trauma caused by past violent events in American history?

by /u/TchaikenNugget in /r/AskHistorians

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