Sep 30 2008
The Last Tour- A Decorated Marine’s War Within
In the September 29, 2008, issue of The New Yorker, in “The Last Tour” (p. 64), William Finnegan tells the story of Travis Twiggs, a decorated combat veteran with five tours of duty in Afghanistan and Iraq who, after writing about his struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder and becoming a Marine Corps “poster child” on the issue, shot and killed himself and his brother earlier this year
Read the story of Travis Twiggs’ documented struggle with PTSD in The New Yorker article “The Last Tour”.
