Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom -- A volunteer army -- Iraq -- Afghanistan -- Drawdown in Iraq -- Drawdown in Afghanistan -- The media -- 2. Homecoming and parallel lives -- Women warriors -- Family trauma -- Taking space-- 3. Mothers of servicemen and servicewomen -- 4. Spouses and children of servicemen and servicewomen -- 5. The high rate of suicides -- The facts -- The suicide of spouses -- People, not statistics -- Noah Charles Pierce -- Jeff Lucey -- The suffering of families -- 6. Healthcare -- Women warriors -- Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC -- Home base at the Massachusetts General Hospital -- Project Share -- Burgeoning charities -- Criminal behavior -- 7. Hidden grief -- Why we grieve alone -- Minimizing the losses servicemen and servicewomen experience -- Anger and grief -- The grief of returning with mental and physical disabilities -- Grief of the parents -- Grief of a spouse -- Children of servicemen and servicewomen -- The healing power of understanding -- 8. Bridging the chasm -- Social reintegration -- Writing -- Speaking the unspeakable -- Photography -- Theater of war -- The soldiers project -- Give an hour -- Always lost: a meditation on war -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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