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...Fern at 123 began the varsity match by a close decision over Hank Lydon. He was followed by Dick Adams at 130, who made short work of Al Poole, pinning him after 2:40 minutes of the first period...
...said . . .'Lydon, where are you going . . . where's your rifle?' He said, 'I'm hurt, I'm frightened' ... He said he had broken his little finger, but it seemed perfectly all right to me. He was lying on the floor under a shelf dug into the side of the trench the whole time ... I said several times, 'Get up and fight,' and Lydon replied, 'I can't. I'm hurt, I'm afraid.' " Lydon took no part in the desperate battle around him. Finally, the Chinese...
...Lydon came home from 21 months in the P.W. camps to find himself facing charges of "misbehaving before the enemy in such a manner as to show cowardice." Last week, in a bare, hot courtroom at Catterick barracks, Lydon heard combat officers debate his fate with civilian psychiatrists...
...prosecution: Lydon is "a coward who did not, in everyday language, have the guts to go on in these horrible circumstances...
...defense: "Whatever Lydon did ... it was not the result of a criminal mind, but something over which he had no control ... He was mentally ill." Two members of his family had had nervous breakdowns and Lydon himself is "socially inadequate," suffers from "pathological anxiety." and has a mental age of twelve. Lydon, a psychiatrist testified, should never have been sent into combat in the first place...