BTW, now that HBO has shown its excellent special, "Alive Day Memories: Home from Iraq," you can watch the entire film on its website. Here's the link.
Well-deserved props to HBO, James Gandolfini, and everyone involved for getting this vital story out there. Realistically, the film shows nine or ten people's valuable stories -- but nine or ten out of the more than 27,000 military who have been injured in Afghanistan and Iraq, so far. That's almost 30,000 people coming home and needing to cope with the massive adjustments to their lives, families, living accommodations, pride, and dreams for the future. And it's just the beginning of the adjustments -- there's a long road ahead. Let's hope we still are giving this topic the compassionate, effective treatment it deserves in another few years -- and from here on out as well. The vets, and their families, deserve it.
