Oh What A Slaughter by Larry McMurtry

Q: "Nephi Johnson, one of the participants in the Moutain Meadows Massacre, died crying "Blood, blood, blood"
Q: Is trauma that bad, I wonder if this is the same type of thing, the troops go through when they come back from combat?
C: I think trauma in general is an interesting study, I mean why does he brain choose to hang on to the bloodiest parts of our lives, or the parts we try to forget.