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?
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