DEFENSE: PTSD RECOVERY

Sgt. David Gilmore

"When I came back the second time I was just, 'I don't think I can handle going back over there anymore.' It took my psychiatrist about 10 minutes to say, 'Oh, you're not going back.' "

by Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.

Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008


Excerpts from an interview with a soldier traumatized by his first tour of duty in Iraq.

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