By Kavitha Cardoza, Clare Schneider — 2021
Perhaps the most important takeaway is the power of friendship . . . a friend can be a lifeline.
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One night in 1967, twenty-six-year-old John Donohue—known as Chick—was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar. The friends gathered there had lost loved ones in Vietnam. Now they watched as antiwar protesters turned on the troops themselves.
3.5 year-old Emmet has an unusual friendship with his neighbor, 89.5 year-old Erling. The two are nearly inseparable. You always hope that a tale such as this one will result in a happy ending, but life just isn't that simple . . .
In 1968, Edward Veaudry was drafted to the US ARMY and during his service he transported over 400 deceased GI’s to Saigon where they were taken home to US soil.
Anna Coleman Ladd made masks for Veterans who suffered face injuries during World War I.
Don Malarkey grew up scrappy and happy in Astoria, Oregon—jumping off roofs, playing pranks, a free-range American. Fritz Engelbert’s German boyhood couldn’t have been more different. Regimented and indoctrinated by the Hitler Youth, he was introspective and a loner.
Jack was wounded in Vietnam after landing in a hot LZ. He lost some of his Marines that day and after returning home, grieved their loss by turning to drugs and alcohol.
A top expert on human trauma argues that we vastly overestimate how common PTSD is and fail to recognize how resilient people really are. After 9/11, mental health professionals flocked to New York to handle what everyone assumed would be a flood of trauma cases. Oddly, the flood never came.
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