is published because of beth dunham who told me i should get it published. this whole thing is for fault. the most important part of all this is i learned exposure therapy works. with each story that i wrote it became progressively easier to write the words on a page and a route that time i decided it was time to go back to work with our wounded marines and i have been there ever since. it is where i belong really and i guess it is a unique opportunity to try to be one of the voices out there trying to convince people that it is okay to seek help for wounds no one can see. someone told me he feels like the country after this is in the midst of a slow-motion mass casualty. i have to say those words struck a chord with me. after being awakened many nights by pounding marines on the door waking us up, mass casualties, the words are a little different for me but it fits. in my humble opinion that is because it is based on one thing. i am hearing it over and over again from my patients, from those in audiences who ask questions in front of everybody come up later

beth parker shows us. >> i think that's really cool. >> i'm excited. >> obviously we're extremely flattered. >> reporter: flattered that so many d.c. residents are letting books take them on a journey. lacey dunhamor politics and prose bookstore. she is so excited by a book she read by the writer jasmine ward. >> it gives me chills to think about it because it's so wonderful. >> reporter: that enthusiasm is contagious. a new study says the residents of d.c. are more literate than their counterparts in any other city than america. >> we're wonderfully loyal to us and the printed word in general. >> i read a lot, yes. >> it's true, too, people that you meet at work, people are very well read. >> reporter: researchers measured things like how many bookstores a city has, how many people still read the newspaper and how much education people get. at 14th and v northwest inside the restaurant and bookstore busboys and poets -- >> it's mentally stimulating. i've seen a lot of book readings here. i come specifically for that. >> reporter: readers we talked with agree it's rather iron make d.c. would be named the most lit -- ironic that d.c. would be named the most literate city in america when last year