Suicides, treatment of North Carolina veterans figure prominently in this lengthy New York Times report.
Sgt. Jacob Blaylock flipped on the video camera he had set up in a trailer at the Tallil military base, southeast of Baghdad. He lit a cigarette, inhaled deeply, blew the smoke upward. “Hey, it’s Jackie,” he said. “It’s the 20th of April. We go home in six days. I lost two good friends on the 14th. I’m having a hard time dealing with it.”
After Combat, Victims of an Inner War – New York Times
August 3, 2009
