Lew Powell's Frostbitten Feet

[BettyO]

I agree, Maddie. I think that the hooding was just that - an effort to dehumanize these poor folk and more or less "break them down".... poor Lew, as "battle hardened" as he was, was still just a kid - and it had devastating affects on him, not just emotionally and psychologically, but probably physically as well. This was more or less, I feel, why the poor boy was so constipated.