Great Article by Nathaniel Fick

My interest in this topic (if you don't count Vietnam) started when I read the following great article by Nathaniel Fick, called "Coming Home to What?" which had previously been published in the Boston Globe in the summer of 2005.  Fick is the exceptional author of an equally exceptional book, One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer.  Fick, a Dartmouth honors graduate and former USMC Captain, with tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq, talks in the article about how likely current veterans are to experience all the potential triggers for combat trauma, and how few resources await them upon their return.  Fick himself went the extra mile and read up on the resources available on the topic, so he could be of greater value to the men he led, and resources he recommends are the books by Jonathan Shay, M.D., Ph.D., which will be mentioned more specifically later.  Kudos to Fick for taking a personal lead on this particular topic, and for shining his personal light on the topic so that others can follow.