EDMONDS -- For armed services men and women returning stateside, fear can become a ghost haunting them in daily life, more frightening than the firestorms and improvised explosive devices they encountered abroad. For these veterans, a new war begins at home with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.
“Admitting you have PTSD is like admitting you are a bad soldier,” said Dedie Davis, an Edmonds resident and wife of a veteran. Davis' husband asked not to be identified.
Watching her husband struggle to adjust to life in Edmonds spurred her to create Operation Open Arms in 200...
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