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35: 51: 165:, then-Corporal Joe Houle (director of the Marine Corps Museum of the Carolinas in 2002) said he saw no emotion in the eyes of his new squad: "The look in their eyes was like the life was sucked out of them". He later learned that the term for their condition was "the 1,000-yard stare". "After I lost my first friend, I felt it was best to be detached," he explained. 156:
He left the States 31 months ago. He was wounded in his first campaign. He has had tropical diseases. He half-sleeps at night and gouges Japs out of holes all day. Two-thirds of his company has been killed or wounded. He will return to attack this morning. How much can a human being
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they exhibited but is now also used to refer to an unfocused gaze observed in people under a stressful situation, or in people with certain
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exhibits the thousand-yard stare after two days of constant fighting at the
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due to acute stress or traumatic events. It was originally used about war
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This article is about a military-related term. For the band, see
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The thousand-yard stare is sometimes described as an effect of
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Kudler, Harold (2017). "Combat Stress and Related Disorders".
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Index

Thousand Yard Stare (band)
Thousand Yard Stare (album)
Thousand Mile Stare

War artist
Thomas Lea's

U.S. Marine
Battle of Eniwetok
blank
dissociation
combatants
post-traumatic stress
mental health conditions
shell shock
combat stress reaction
medical term
Life magazine
World War II
Tom Lea
Marine
Battle of Peleliu
United States Army Center of Military History
Fort Lesley J. McNair
Vietnam in 1965
Catatonia
Combat stress reaction
Defence mechanism
Hypervigilance
James Blake Miller

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