Oct 03 2009
“The Battle on the Homefront”
The ravages of the current war aren’t always apparent to those untouched by the conflict.
But, for those troops or their families who are suffering from the consequences of an unseen injury of war, the war rages on in their minds, hearts, bodies, and souls.
That holds particularly true for Sgt. Loyd Sawyer and his family. Sawyer left his job as a funeral director to join the Army to give honor those who lost their lives in service to their country.
His six months working at the morgue at Dover Air Force Base, Deleware and six months in mortuary affairs at Joint Base Balad in Iraq forever changed his life.
Kelly Kennedy, a Military Times reporter writes about the Sawyer family, and Loyd’s struggles in the first of a 12-part series on posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at MilitaryTimes “Living with PTSD: a former sergeant’s personal hell.”
