Play Book Tag discussion

The author is a journalist who followed soldiers as they returned home from wars in Iraq or Afghanistan to try to fit back into their previous lives with their families, but so many of them brought back psychological trauma, whether a traumatic brain injury (TBI) or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Some have become abusive and/or want to kill themselves. Some of them try to get treatment to varying degrees of success. The wives/girlfriends are also interviewed, and their husbands’/boyfriends’ issues take a toll on them, as well.

This is sad. It does jump around, sometimes without “warning” (that I noticed, anyway), which sometimes made it a bit harder to follow and to figure out who was who. Of course, the people the author focused the most on were easier to remember. It was tough to see how, not only are the soldiers, themselves, affected, but how their issues affect their families, as well.