certainly, soldiers and airmen and marines, sailers deployed overseas, they know they're at war.reporters who cover the conflict, we know we're at war. our elected leaders probably sense that we're at war. but it's easy to get the feeling when you're just walking around small town america or in many detroit or d.c., wherever, a lot of americas don't seem affected by these conflicts. i'm not sure who's to blame for that, but it's not healthy. >> host: "war is boring," is the book. cold spring, texas, please go ahead. >> caller: yes. i personally experienced post traumatic stress syndrome after my husband was district attorney in an eastern county, and what i found was i could not sleep for months and months and months, and i was just wondering since he refers to having post traumatic stress syndrome, did he have insomnia? .. i would go back and forth between home and iraq. i would wake up at home in the middle of the night and have no idea where i was. that is probably the most terrifying thing, psychological effect i have suffered. so spring out of bed at three in the morning in