Vulnerability makes them uncomfortable, so their go-to response is pretending it never happened. If you bring it up? Expect a blank stare and a quick subject change.

“He just looked at me with a blank stare on his face,” he said. “I lifted his clothing to see if he had any injuries consistent with gunshot wounds but I didn’t see any injuries.

It was May 15, 1967. "I looked up and saw a Marine with what they call the thousand-yard stare," Johnston recalls, "and I lifted my Leica and snapped his picture. The soldier’s gaze never left ...

The blank stare at the screen. The numbers that don’t add up. The late-night panic wondering where the next client, the rent, the bills, or the next business deal is going to come from.

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