Although he enjoyed his schooling at Valley Forge Military School, he portrayed it as a hellhole in his book, The Catcher In The Rye, (Morrill). This may be due to his violent and traumatic experiences in WWII.
             Soon after Salinger graduated from military school, he joined the army, and fought in WWII. Salinger was a member of the Twelfth Infantry Regiment. Salinger saw hundreds of his fellow soldiers killed in battle. After four month of fighting, and after the liberation of Paris, Salinger checked himself into a military hospital, and went Section 8. After a few weeks of hospital treatment he was released, and soon after was discharged for psychiatric reasons. The fact that Salinger was Jewish also had some impact upon his mental well-being.
             Now Salinger is not a particularly disturbed individual, but after experiencing the trauma of war, he understandably had a very strong aversion towards war, and towards the army in general.
             After reading The Catcher In The Rye, it could be gathered that Salinger made the military school look so bad because of his aversion from the military. This book may be a kind of venting of feelings for him. Salinger may have been very angry about his military experience while writing this book, and making the military school look bad
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