Hour. I wondered if you could start out by telling me a little bit about yourself and why you wanted to write this book. Guest into some ways i had always lived in the shadow of ptsd roast of my adult life. My adult years were in uniform including the rotc. So i was vaguely aware of the idea of ptsd and that it was something soldiers were associated with and furthermore my dad was a vietnam veteran and i grew up in suburban san diego so all of my neighbors were either top gun instructors or marines and so i felt like i really grew up in the shadow of the vietnam. I was always part of the conversation and this lingering shadow. So i always have a general awareness of it and then i served in the military and was familiar with the idea in a general sense and then in 2004 i was out of the marine corps at this point and i did my first two are as a reporter in iraq and came back and noticed immediately getting off the plane in california feeling different, going to a bar and my best friend t
Next on booktvs after words. War correspondent and former marine infantry officer david morris sits down with iraq war veteran and a rand corporations kayla williams. The two talk about the history of posttraumatic stress disorder and the 27 million americans including david morris himself who currently suffer from ptsd. Ms. Williams is also the author of plenty of time when we get home, love and recovery in the aftermath of war. Host i am kayla williams. Im a combat veteran of the iraq war and the spouse of a wounded veteran. My second book chronicles my familys journey after my husband sustained a traumatic brain injury in iraq and develop posttraumatic stress disorder. So it is both with personal and professional interest that im tremendously pleased to sit down today with david morris and have a conversation about his new book the evil hours a biography of posttraumatic stress disorder. Thanks so much for joining me today. Guest thanks for having me. Host i wonder if he could start
Was not in the south telling them to a scape. So the first thing was actually running away in various modes but then they would make contact with either agents of the underground railroad or might know okay this is of. This is a fugitive slave up the road. One shouldnt take the railroad metaphor literally that it was a success to them. There were 8,000 out of slavery to this north and canada in the 30 years before the civil war so that would be 30,000 people. There were 4 million slaves in 1860. They gained with the assistance of white and black activists something i think i could look back at with pride in our history. The Hidden History might be slavery misleading. I was trying to say the new york part of this is unknown. They were the abolitionists involved in the movement so on the one hand they are engaged in secret and illegal activities and sheltering and assisting escaped slaves and on the other hand going to public meetings. They are petitioning the legislatures of the states
And recovery in the aftermath of war. Im a combat veteran of the iraq war and the combat wounded veteran. My second book plenty of time when we get home of the recovery in the aftermath of war calls my familys journey after my husband sustained dramatic brain injury and subsequently develop postTraumatic Stress disorder so it is with personal and professional interest im pleased to sit down today with david morris to have a conversation about his book the evil hour a biography of postTraumatic Stress disorder. I was wondering if you could start off by telling me a little bit about your self and why you wanted to write this book. Guest in some ways i had always lived in the shadows most of my early adult life because my first adult years were in ten years in uniform including rotc so i was aware of the idea of ptsd that it was something that soldiers were associated with and my dad was a vietnam veteran and i grew up in suburban san diego. So i felt like i grew up in the shadow of the v
Probably have have had friends who have died doing that. To me, it goes against everything in the american ethos not to be doing that. Theres a lot of unanswered questions, were still getting information now that had to be pulled out through subpoena. We dont know where the president was, what hillary was doing. You know everything what they were doing during the bin laden raid, but you dont know any of this stuff, and then, of course, you have the coverup, and it really goes in with my book for personal political gain. They wanted to show that libya was pacified because libya was their baby right . That was their intervention under the guise of the duty to protect, to stop gadhafi from killing his people. I would submit to you many more people were killed after they destabilized it. Genocide genocide of christians. Isis has a Radio Station a tv station in libya right now. Its a disaster. So before, during and after, tubs of failures tons of failures. And if Hillary Clinton decides to