The first time Kristin Peterson’s husband hit her, she was asleep in their bed. She awoke that night a split second after Joshua’s fist smashed into her face and ran, terrified and crying, to the bathroom to wipe the blood spurting from her nose. When she stuck her head back into the bedroom, there he […]
Iraq War veterans
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Help on the ground: a local perspective
Framed prominently on the wall behind Tom Cray’s desk is an excerpt from Tim O’Brien’s novel The Things They Carried. The quotation describes what Vietnam soldiers carried, ranging from the mundane to the monumental, the literal to the figurative: “They were afraid of dying, but too afraid to show it. They carried the emotional baggage […]
