Half 1: What does it imply to reside by means of warfare? And may somebody who’s skilled warfare ever recover from it? These are questions NPR’s Quil Lawrence has been asking himself for years. A decade in the past, Lawrence did a narrative on David Carlson, a veteran who’d excelled at being a soldier however struggled at residence with PTSD, medication and eventually incarceration. May Carlson discover a method out or would the trauma of warfare come to outline his life?
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This episode was produced by Andrew Mambo and edited by Jenny Schmidt and Andrew Sussman. It was fact-checked by Sarah Knight and the engineer was Kwesi Lee. Music by Quil and Tim Lawrence.
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