LDW

After four combat tours to Iraq and nearly twenty years of active service, my Army career came to a grinding halt when I began to experience symptoms of what would ultimately be diagnosed as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. If you’ve ever hit rock bottom and survived, then you can imagine where I was at when I had to start over.
Growing up, I was raised in several small towns in rural Upstate New York. Common to each house that I lived was Amish buggies, gravel roads, and rolling fields of goldenrod weeds