beth and dan dunham invited know be with them at the white house when the award was given, where i was very proud to be the single sailor standing among 56 marines in dress blues in recent years if a also been privileged to attend with them the christening ceremony of the uss jason dunham, the navy's newest destroyer. and i'm sew fortunate for all of this. certainly not the only medical or religious personnel person from our services who has sat with a dying warrior on the battlefield. but because of the really truly unique circumstances around all this, i know i may by one of the only ones who has learned of his whole story because i've gotten to know his family. i consider them great friends, and they're very cherished to me. deb still introduces me to people as her angel, which is completely overwhelming. but she believes he fought to stay alive because when i spoke to him, he heard her. not me. i know we both need to believe that. so, not the typical place for a psychologist, right? nothing about my deployment involved typical places for psychologist so what did i do in the midst o

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