Rabbi Arthur Waskow
The Shalom
Report,
August, 2006
The Pain and Perhaps the Healing
If breaking your heart is one way of opening it, then take the risk of reading
Penny Coleman's book Flashback (Beacon). She reports in vivid language her
painful research into the truths of those who have returned with wounded
souls from the wars of the last 150 years. And between each chapter there
are a few pages from an interview with one or another woman whose Vietnam-veteran
husband, beset with the nightmares that do not end in daytime, has killed
himself.
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