A plane crash survivor and trauma researcher turns her attention to the memories we’re making now.

Clint Lorance had been in charge of his platoon for only three days when he ordered his men to kill three Afghans stopped on a dirt road. A second-degree murder conviction and pardon followed. Today, Lorance is hailed as a hero by President Trump. His troops have suffered a very different fate.

The moderators who keep Google and Youtube free of beheadings and child porn now have PTSD themselves.

After all these years, it’s still there, in the back of her mind, lurking. No matter how good things are going, it never quite goes away, this feeling that she should have died that day. And her brush with death is the first thing that strangers tend to notice about her, like a limp or a disfigurement. Once they find out where she went to high school, that’s all they want to talk about.

Veterans are taking their own lives on VA hospital campuses, a desperate form of protest against a system that they feel hasn’t helped them.

Life in a small town, six years after a school shooting.

Orange County’s first serial killer in 25 years stalked homeless men.

How two veterans with PTSD turned a Canadian military town into a medical-marijuana hub.

A man cares for his ex's mentally unstable brother.

A veteran with PTSD takes on the fighter jets that fly above his sanctuary on the Olympic Peninsula.

Violence convulses the city of Chicago after dark. Reporting on it leaves its own scars.

A single pill could take the sting out of our memories of trauma.

An army vet vanishes in upstate New York.

An ex-SEAL turns to “ocean therapy” to cope with chronic pain and PTSD.

The surprising bond between damaged birds and traumatized veterans.

One Marine battalion has had four members kill themselves in just the last year. The soldiers have jury-rigged a system of Facebook notifications and Google spreadsheets to try to stop it.

Troubles and afflictions weigh on counselors and veterans.

"The Fort was actually just an ugly house. Eighteen rooms, two stories. A kitchen, a lavatory, a staircase. One office, one entrance, two exits, thirty-six bunks, four televisions, the mini-library, two footballs, one fútbol, a basketball, and the whole of Big Ben, the biggest backyard in Texas. It housed between twenty-one and thirty-two bodies a year. Most of them stayed a couple months. They found us through each other."

It wasn’t easy, or cheap.

An essay on PTSD.

Can neuroscience take the pain out of painful memories?

Can an illegal drug heal PTSD?

A year and a half with Candace Desmond-Woods, whose husband, and Iraq war veteran, suffers from PTSD and alcoholism.

On decorated sniper Chris Kyle and the troubled young veteran who took his life.

How PTSD spreads from returning soldiers to their families.

A tragic car crash, its lone survivor, and his reeling town.