Murder, She Wrote1984

Ben Oliver:
[explaining his stay in the VA hospital and his later nomadic behavior] OK then, I'll give it to you in one quick swallow. You see, Corporal, when a mortar round hits close enough it not only explodes, it implodes at the very same time. This causes a vacuum, a force that sucks part of your being out through the top of your skull. For lack of a better word, let's call it your soul. But what most people don't know is souls are a hell of a lot more fragile than human flesh. Sometimes they just never seem to heal.