18.04.2016 - 15:54 [ In These Times ]

Speaking to High Schoolers About the Truth of War Helped Me Deal with My Trauma from Being a Soldier

Just the other day I spoke at a college in Peoria, three hours south of Chicago. “My brother hasn’t left the house since returning home from Iraq,” one of the students told me with tears in her eyes. “What you said helped me understand his situation better. I might have more to say to him now.”