Warrior’s Return
by Robert Sheckley, Galaxy (November 1955); reprinted Galaxy UK 35 (February 1956), 91-103.
Heavy-handed short story capturing something of the two-faced treatment (admiration or contempt, fickly distinguished) so often dished out to returning soldiers by those who didn’t serve. The speculative element, when at last revealed, makes little to no sense. The ending is shambolic.