Career soldiers fraternize and co-habituate with the locals wherever they are called to serve. 

They cultivate friendships that teach them the language, culture and customs of the people. Most importantly, seemingly inconsequential regional differences; 

      It was via these friends that Gl's in Korea first learned about" Charly's Electronic Brain Washing. " Bravado boosting jokes about Chinese Laundries changed to jokes about Charly's New and Improved Dry Cleaning business .

Things got more serious as more stories of returning POW's were passed around. 
What was getting into these guy's heads? They were said to act more like Charly than Charly did when they came back. 

Repatriated POW's were isolated and whisked away back home to be de­briefed and for the brass to find out more about what was happening behind enemy lines. 

Rumors about these Ex- POW'S filtered out via the GI Grape Vine, Some of these rumors were that returning POW's were emaciated, and allowed to eat whatever they pleased, as much as they pleased, at whatever hour they wanted to eat on board the troopships taking them home. 

One intriguing rumor that was later written up in a widely read magazine was about a POW returning home by plane suddenly changed personalities in mid flight. It seems that the GI had grown up in a very abusive family and had unconsciously created a second personality that protected him when things got too unbearable. 

He had been laken prisoner early in the Korean conflict and had spend several years there. 
Apparently, the care­taker personality had emerged when he was first taken, and it was not until some three years later that, on board that plane that the caretaker personality returned to the subconscious and the normal personality took over once morel, COMPLETELY UNAWARE OF . WHAT HAD OCCURRED DURING THOSE THREE YEARS.! 

     When replacements who had undergone anti brain washing training, or at least said that they had been trained to avoid Mind Control, finally began showing up , they were taken with a large dose of salt. Most of what they claimed to know were just revised methods of avoiding falling for visual and auditory enemy propaganda. 

     According to bits and pieces of credible rumors this so called Electronic Brain Washing could peneotrate through steel helmets, plastic liners, hair and scull and find your brain, however small it was, changing your personality by replacing your emotions and substituting your character with their version of how you should think. It worked whether you listened, or not whether you listened to radio, they looked or not. 

      Reason told the Gi's one thing and imagination told them something else. When those two are pitted against each other, imagination will win every time. , and the imagination of soldiers 
in combat zones quietly grew from mosquito-size to the enormity comparable to the fear now felt for the coming year 2012. the end of the Mayan Calendar, and as invisible but effective, as a Mind Control weapon. Fear, distrust and divisiveness now appeared .. (to be continued.)