One of our course themes--and Cause 1 of the Noir crime genre and accompanying social changes--appears literally in the title of this article,
"When War Comes Home." In it,
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof tells the story of a horrific random murder committed by a returned vet. Here an apparent case of PTSD may have been caused by a physical brain injury suffered by Staff Sgt Dwight L. Smith, pictured here, and that went untreated. It's a story worth reading in part for confirmation of some of our discussions and also for a sense of the ongoing currency of the problem.
