Section 6:

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“Brannan’s not surprised she’s picked up overreacting and yelling—you don’t have to be at the Vines residence for too long to hear Caleb hollering from his room, where he sometimes hides for 18, 20 hours at a time, and certainly not if you’re there during his nightmares, which Katie is. “She mirrors…she just mirrors” her dad’s behavior, Brannan says. She can’t get Katie to stop picking at the sores on her legs, sores she digs into her own skin with anxious little fingers. She is not, according to Brannan, “a normal, carefree six-year-old.”

This is a Casual claim. It explains that the daughter Katie is mirroring her father’s actions, behaviors and habits after his time in the war. Simply putting it as is with the judgment that “oh if dad’s doing it then it must be ok” type of attitude that children have from time to time. Making Katie out as not a normal kid with one of her teachers commenting on it at the very of the quote.

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“Different studies of the children of American World War II, Korea, and Vietnam vets with PTSD have turned up different results: “45 percent” of kids in one small study “reported significant PTSD signs”; “83 percent reported elevated hostility scores.” Other studies have found a “higher rate of psychiatric treatment”; “more dysfunctional social and emotional behavior”; “difficulties in establishing and maintaining friendships.” The symptoms were similar to what those researchers had seen before, in perhaps the most analyzed and important population in the field of secondary traumatization: the children of Holocaust survivors.”

This is an Analogy Claim. The quote explains the numerous versions of trauma that the kids of Veterans may experience after their parent returns home and they claim how they were formed from the same basis of that trauma found in those of the survivors of the holocaust.

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“I asked the lead scientist, Marinus van IJzendoorn of Leiden University, what might account for other studies’ finding of secondary trauma in vets’ spouses or kids. He said he’s never analyzed those studies, and wonders if the results would hold up to a meta-analysis. But: “Suppose that there is a second-generation effect in veterans, there are a few differences that are quite significant” from children of Holocaust survivors that “might account for difference in coping mechanisms and resources.” 

This is a credibility claim. It gives the word of a researcher on whether secondary trauma is for the family members of vets. The researcher suspects there would be a second generational effect when it comes to vet parents influencing their families, though he explains that there would be differences in coping mechanisms.