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Now Finkel follows many of those same men back home in a journey that is less about geography than psychological terrain, undertaken by people trying to heal — or, at the very least, survive.
In Thank You for Your Service, Finkel writes with tremendous compassion about the soldiers, and about their partners and the heartbroken wife who wonders privately whether her returned husband is going to get better, or kill her; and the heroic victims, with the fresh taste of a gun in their mouths, who will either make the journey back to sanity or to final ruin.
Finkel takes us everywhere the war is seeping into — to courtrooms filling with divorce and abuse cases and worse, to bars, and to Fort Riley, to the mental-health clinic to which the army is outsourcing its post-traumatic stress disorder cases.
Thank You for Your Service is an immense act of understanding — shocking but always riveting, unflinching but deeply humane.