July 2008: The Consequences of War on Men and Families

Keith Armstrong, LCSW, director of Couples and Family Therapy and director of Mental Health Social Work at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. He is the author of Courage After Fire based directly on work with Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and their families.

Daniel Zwerdling is an acclaimed investigative journalist for National Public Radio (NPR). His stories have repeatedly attracted national attention and generated national action. In late 2006 and 2007, he revealed that officers at Fort Carson, in Colorado, were punishing soldiers who'd come back from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan with posttraumatic stress disorder and other serious mental health problems — even kicking them out of the Army. As a result of Zwerdling's reports, a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators, the Pentagon and the Government Accountability Office all launched separate investigations, and commanders at the army base vowed to treat soldiers better.