Every stuffed friend in the Hundred Acre Woods is a child-friendly representation of a characteristic of post-traumatic stress. It’s more likely, in my opinion, that the stories were a way for Milne to explain his own post-traumatic stress to his six-year-old son. ![]() After all, the book was written specifically for one child, by name, and features the stuffed animals that the boy loved. Shea’s theory seems pointed in the right direction, but may be a little too impersonal. Sarah Shea that Milne wrote into each character of Winnie-the-Pooh a different psychological disorder. Milne started writing a collection of short stories entitled Winnie-the-Pooh. Milne knew of only one way to explain to his son what was happening - through his writing. The popping of balloons sent him ducking for cover. It was noted that when Christopher was little, Alan terrified him when he confused a swarm of buzzing bees with whizzing bullets. The demons of war followed Milne throughout his life. He was sent home for his wounds suffered that day. Milne was one of the hundred or so badly wounded in the ambush. Sixty British men perished in an instant. Two days later, he and his battalion were attacked, just as he had foreseen. He tried warning his command of the foolishness of the action to no avail. On August 10, 1915, Milne and his men were sent to enable communications by laying telephone line dangerously close to an enemy position. Bodies were stacked in the flooded-out trenches where other men lived, fought, and died. ![]() More than three million men fought and one million men were wounded or killed - many of Milne’s closest friends were among the numerous casualties. The description, “Hell on Earth” is apt, but doesn’t come close to fully describing the carnage of what became the bloodiest battle in human history. Soon after, he was sent to France to fight in the Battle of the Somme. He was commissioned as an officer into the 4th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, as a member of the Royal Corps of Signals on February 1, 1915. As a young man, Alan Alexander Milne stood up for King and Country when it was announced that the United Kingdom had entered World War I.
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