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While doing my research for my book, I did a good measure of reading up on combat PTSD and the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in general. There are some well-written accounts from our troops as well as from their family members.

They'll all be listed in Moving a Nation to Care's bibliography, but I wanted to pass along a few that I'd absolutely recommend anyone read. They'll go far in getting you closer to the subject.

The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq by John Crawford
Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier's Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington by Paul Rieckhoff
War and the Soul:Healing Our Nation's Veterans from Post-traumatic Stress Disorder by Edward Tick, MD
Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, and the Lessons of War by Penny Coleman
What Was Asked of Us: An Oral History of the Iraq War by the Soldiers Who Fought It by Trish Wood
Down Range: To Iraq and Back by Bridget C. Cantrell, PhD, and Chuck Dean

Please feel free to add your reading suggestions in comments, and I'll be happy to include them on my Amazon.com Profile page...and on my own reading list.

You can check my book's Amazon.com sales rank from this page (it's on the book's main page, too). Wow, currently at #42,833? Hey, did someone just buy a one!? Thanks! Scroll down under my blog post entry on that page, and look for a center column called "Bibliography" to find the sales rank number.

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Considerable Quotes

"The first shamans earned their keep in primitave societies by providing explanations and rituals that enabled man to deal with his environment and his personal anguish. Early man, no less than we, dealt with forces that he could not understand or control, and he attempted to come to grips with his vulnerablity by trying to bring order to his universe." -- Richard Gabriel in No More Heroes

"War stories end when the battle is over or when the soldier comes home. In real life, there are no moments amid smoldering hilltops for tranquil introspection. When the war is over, you pick up your gear, walk down the hill and back into the world." -- OIF vet John Crawford in The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell

"After wars' end, soldiers once again become civilians and return to their families to try to pick up where they left off. It is this process of readjustment that has more often than not been ignored by society. -- Major Robert H. Stretch, Ph.D in Textbook of Military Medicine: Vol. 6 Combat Stress

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