then along comes the guy was talking about earlier adam schuman.is moment arrives where it's clear he needs help. the seven-week program is full with a waiting list. before the program is full with a waiting list family finds this little thing in northern california that's not va and it's not tried care. it's entirely donor supported. the guy who runs that says e he can come here but the deal is four months minimum and he stays as long as it takes to tear it apart and figure it out. seven weeks, four weeks, at least four months and it's where you go isn't dependent on your particular peculiar needs for recovery. it comes down to where there is nobody and i try awfully hard and i think i succeeded at keeping my own opinions out of these books. they're not my stories. they are the stories of the soldiers and families but i think it's pretty fair to say that if i had a kid, who served them and came home and needed help and i learned that there were these three options available i would expect the very best for him. it seems like the least we could do

so basically adam schuman comes home, and thank you for your service begins with them. n the opening line of the book, two years later, adam drops the baby and the book goes on from there to trace not only adam, but his wife, their children and this hole clustered in kansas of people who serve well and now are trying to get better. >> i have a question about the reporting of the book, david. it reads seamlessly now but how do you go about advising a plan of attack for the porting of it? you've got these vets around the country. you don't know which ones necessarily something, something that would be useful to you in your book will happen to. how do you, with one family, at a time, how do you devise a plan to use your time most efficiently? >> if the figures are right, of the 2 million americans who were deployed directly into iraq and afghanistan, if the guesses are right, some 25 -- 25% of it was some type of psychological wounds, to contend with. that's a lot of characters to choose from, right? so adam was my starting point, and again, the type of journalism i do depe

then along comes the guy was talking about earlier adam schuman.s moment arrives where it's clear he needs help. the seven-week program is full with a waiting list. before the program is full with a waiting list family finds this little thing in northern california that's not va and it's not tried care. it's entirely donor supported. the guy who runs that says e he can come here but the deal is four months minimum and he stays as long as it takes to tear it apart and figure it out. seven weeks, four weeks, at least four months and it's where you go isn't dependent on your particular peculiar needs for recovery. it comes down to where there is nobody and i try awfully hard and i think i succeeded at keeping my own opinions out of these books. they're not my stories. they are the stories of the soldiers and families but i think it's pretty fair to say that if i had a kid, who served them and came home and needed help and i learned that there were these three options available i would expect the very best for him. it seems like the least we could do b