July/August 2006 Issue of Tikkun Magazine,
Section:   "Tikkun recommends:"  

Flashback: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide and the Lessons of War

Now in its fourth year, the vaunted "asymmetrical" warfare taking place in Iraq has introduced America's enlisted persons to unheard of levels of violence and trauma. In Flashback, Vietnam War widow Penny Coleman, who lost her own post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-suffering husband to suicide, makes a heartfelt case for caring for the emotional lives of veterans. Interviewing women whose spouses returned home from combat only to fatally succumb to its effects afterward, Coleman writes of the prevalence of PTSD and suicide amongst Iraq war vets, and how, through opening sharing our stories of loss, we can help heal yet another generation of walking wounded.