Soldiers are willing to talk, if we who have never worn the uniform are ready to listen.

Healing after a soldier's homecoming

An exploration of the invisible wounds of war

Last spring, when I visited Major Tony De Stefano at Malone House, a guesthouse converted into an inpatient unit at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., Tony had been there for close to a year. He was undergoing treatment for a lung disease contracted in Afghanistan, probably from inhaling fine