As I wrote previously, one of Jamie MacWhirter’s triggers is getting stuck behind a slow driver. This is not surprising as he served a tour in Afghanistan as a truck driver with the 1st Service Battalion, and being[…]

I just finished reading Empty Casing: A Soldier’s Memoir of Sarajevo Under Siege by Fred Doucette. We previously reviewed his book, Better Off Dead, which was about OSI in the Canadian military and his decade as a peer[…]

This post appears off-schedule our usual publication schedule for two reasons. One, it’s Memorial Day in the United States. For many, it’s a day of grilling and picnics. IAVA (Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America) is encouraging[…]

Roméo Dallaire‘s third and latest book is “Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD.” As the title suggests, it’s about how he acquired PTSD and has battled it for over thirty years. The memoir is[…]

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