The Honor Was Mine

Synopsis

Biography: Historical, Political & Military. A Young Combat Veteran Hides In His Closet Under A Pile Of Clothes On Bad Nights. Another, Home For Five Days, Can't Figure Out How To Talk To His Wife. And A Commander's Spouse Recounts The Soul-draining Effect Of Attending Nearly One Hundred Memorial Services...when Therapist Elizabeth Heaney Left Her Private Practice To Counsel Military Service Members And Their Families, She Came Face-to-face With Unheard-of Struggles And Fears. Emotions Run Deeply-and Often Silently-in The Hearts Of Combat Veterans In This Eye-opening Portrait Of The Complex, Nuanced Lives Of Service Personnel, Who Return From Battling The Enemy And Grapple With Readjusting To Civilian Life. Presenting The Soldiers' Stories-told In Their Own Words-as Well As Her Own Story Of Change, Heaney Offers An Intimate Perspective, Not Of War Itself But Of Its Emotional Aftermath. Some Of These Stories Scrape The Bone; Others Are Hopeful, Even Comical.