Elizabeth O'Herrin searched for human connection after deciding not to reenlist. When she returned to church after a decades-long absence, O'Herrin found a soul sister. War Trauma Spread Through His Family Like a Virus

Colonels shouldn't appear to be traumatized, John Sims was told. But after decades of war he needed help if he and his family were going to survive. After 30 Years and Four Wars, One Explosion Opened the Floodgates

"Colonels don't bleed," John Sims' friend said before Sims deployed to Afghanistan. Shortly after, a suicide car bomber blew up the first SUV in Sims' convoy. June 7, 2017

When their tent filled with clumps of mud during the rainy season, Dustin Jones' unit found a solution. But some jobs are too absurd to be taken seriously. I Leave Out the Part where we Catch the Man

Drew Pham told civilians stories of trauma when he first returned. He soon learned that it was easier to tell them a funny story about a goat. Years Later, Loss at War Resonates at Home

November 7, 2016

By Thomas James Brennan A Centuries-Long Battle to the Ambiguity of War

By Natalie Schachar and Thomas James Brennan

Geoff Heath first stepped foot in Iraq in 2005, during his first deployment with the U.S. Marines. He had been trained to show the enemy no mercy and to exploit, without hesitation, any weaknesses to prevail. Heath understood war to be a series of calculated moves to ensure the Marines kept the upper hand. He came to understand war as a game of attrition, and to see it as his job to use every type of warfare to force the enemy’s surrender, or death.
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