Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-245) and index.
Contents:
Coming home. A soldier comes home ; Trying to adjust ; A different kind of casualty -- Fighting the Pentagon. The scandal at Walter Reed ; Coming together ; Education ; Drugs, crime, and losing your benefits ; Losing your benefits: personality disorder -- Fighting the VA. Meet the bureaucracy ; Didn't prepare to treat the wounded ; More bureaucracy -- The downward spiral drugs, crime, homelessness, and suicide. Crime ; Homeless on the streets of America ; Suicide ; Suicide after the war ; Fighting back ; A history of neglect ; Winning the battle at home.
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