Part 1: What does it mean to live through war? And can someone who’s experienced war ever get over it? These are questions NPR’s Quil Lawrence has been asking himself for years. A decade ago, Lawrence did a story on David Carlson, a veteran who’d excelled at being a soldier but struggled at home with PTSD, drugs and finally incarceration. Could Carlson find a way out or would the trauma of war come to define his life?
Listen to Part 2 here.
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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