PTSD Book Salon on Sunday
17 May 2007 2:00 pm by Taylor Marsh
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| PLEASE BUY THIS IMPORTANT BOOK The price is certainly right. |
I'll be doing a Firedoglake book salon on Sunday with author Ilona Meagher.
Her new book “Moving
a Nation to Care” is just being released. I hope you can join
me.
The book is an amazing journey through stories of veterans and what the cost
of war does to their lives and the lives of their families. I'm proud to host
this event on Sunday. Please make some time in your schedule to spend time
with Ilona. It will be an extraordinary discussion on PTSD, which I've talked
about many times before.
It used to be called “battle
fatigue.” In fact, my uncle, who flew planes in WWII, ended up in a
hospital a broken man. Flying mission after mission simply destroyed him. I'll
never forget seeing him there with my mother when I was a very little girl.
The once vibrant dandy of a man was no longer anywhere to be seen.
Ilona Meagher has captured the story of “battle fatigue,” now called
PTSD in her new book.
Firedoglake Book Salon
Sunday, May 20th
2:00 p.m. pacific – 5:00 p.m. eastern
Thanks to Jane Hamsher for having us in so we all could talk about Ilona's
book and the important issues of PTSD, which some of us know so well.
It's long past time that we brought this soldier's disease out into the light. It could help save some lives and the heartbreak of family members who are blindsided by what the Iraq war, with its continual redeployments, as well as the lack of planning and even equipment, has wrought.
