Casualty of War
Mesabi Daily News
by Linda Tyssen
08/20/07
A grieving family stood at the grave that would hold their beloved boy. Men in uniform fired a salute, taps sounded. The flag on his coffin was folded and placed in the arms of his mother. At his funeral she had kissed his face one last time. And so, on Aug. 1 in the Virginia veterans plot, a soldier of the war in Iraq was laid to rest, his troubled soul finally at peace. Noah Charles Pierce, age 23, had taken his own life. Noah Pierce suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. He knew it. His family knew it. Friends knew it. They tried desperately to help him. But to no avail...
http://virginiamn.com/mdn/?section_id=70&story_id=210121
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=casualty+of+war
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=post-traumatic+stress+disorder
by Linda Tyssen
08/20/07
A grieving family stood at the grave that would hold their beloved boy. Men in uniform fired a salute, taps sounded. The flag on his coffin was folded and placed in the arms of his mother. At his funeral she had kissed his face one last time. And so, on Aug. 1 in the Virginia veterans plot, a soldier of the war in Iraq was laid to rest, his troubled soul finally at peace. Noah Charles Pierce, age 23, had taken his own life. Noah Pierce suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder. He knew it. His family knew it. Friends knew it. They tried desperately to help him. But to no avail...
http://virginiamn.com/mdn/?section_id=70&story_id=210121
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=casualty+of+war
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=post-traumatic+stress+disorder
rudkla - 21. Aug, 13:51
