What does it mean to live through war? And can someone who’s experienced
 war ever get over it? These are questions NPR’s Quil Lawrence has been 
asking himself for years. A decade ago, Lawrence did a story on David 
Carlson, a veteran who’d excelled at being a soldier but struggled at 
home with PTSD, drugs and finally incarceration. Could Carlson find a 
way out or would the trauma of war come to define his life?Listen to Part 2 <a href="http://npr.org/2025/11/09/nx-s1-5602036/carlsons-war-part-2"target="_blank"   >here</a>.<br/><br/>Learn more about sponsor message choices: <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a><br/><br/><a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>

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