After shooting movies at the White House for President Kennedy, my next duty was the Pacific Fleet Combat Camera Group at Coronado. Almost every dwelling on the peninsula was occupied by a retired field officer. Spent some spare time watching the SEALs get almost drowned and carrying logs around on the beach. Before going further west I spent some time in survival, escape and evasion school. My prize for successfully navigating the eight mile evasion course was a cup of water before being thrown into the POW compound, for several days of fun and games, including several hours in a dark box on my knees because I would not accept a cigarette unless all the prisoners got some. That taste of POW status was nothing compared to what the Confederates, and some Union prisoners, went through. Among the diseases and conditions you cite was another which affected the eyes. Uncle Frank did not have the condition, but Uncle Alex, who was captured at Cedar Creek and sent to point Lookout, listed it in his pension application. Maybe some medical staff could recognize the problem. Stan