Why Cpt. Walker didn't come home sooner

[THRH79B@prodigy.com ( KELLY D GILES I)]

McGoo:
>If anyone noticed, WWI ended on 11/11/18.  Three years before 
Captain
>Walker's return.  Considering the first thing done after every war 
is
>the exchange of POW's, this makes me wonder about Townshend's 
history
>knowledge.  Either that or it makes me question Captain Walker's
>fidelity to his wife.  What was he doing for those years?

I always figured that Captain Walker had received some horrible 
injury and was laid up in a hospital until he could return home.  
Maybe he even had amnesia, a common enough affliction in dramatic 
works!

- -Yellow "Petite" Ledbetter