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  • Wounds within: a veteran, a PTSD therapist, and a nation unprepared

    I wish the story didn’t sound so familiar.On June 22, 2004, Marine Lance Cpl. Jeff Lucey used a hose to hang himself in the basement of his house in Belchertown, Mass. Surrounding him lay a semi-circle of photographs. In the center was Jeff Lucey’s platoon group photo from his deployment to Iraq.One