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Book details
  • Genre:BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  • SubGenre:Military
  • Language:English
  • Series title:Veterans in Crisis
  • Series Number:2
  • Pages:240
  • eBook ISBN:9798218541231

Veterans in Crisis

JOE'S STORY Untreated Trauma in a Decorated WW II Veteran

by Colonel B. Wayne Quist and Dr. Steve Lansing

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Overview
Volume Two of "Veterans in Crisis" is a short memoir of World War II Private, Joe Haan. Everyone faces challenges in life. How we choose to confront our challenges varies and often determines the outcome. This unique book focuses on how Private Joe Haan coped with his PTSD—the severe trauma he suffered from an early age at the orphanage, trauma on the hated German farm, relief at CCC Camp, and the trauma of killing another man during fierce fighting in World War II as a decorated private soldier in General George Patton's Third Army. Through surviving essays, poetry and other writings, "Joe's Story" reveals one man's struggle to overcome human tragedy on an epic scale. Growing up poor in St. Paul, Minnesota and orphaned at seven years of age, with time spent as an indentured farmhand to a cruel and sadistic farmer, Joe was very much alone in the world.
Description
Volume One of "Veterans in Crisis: Treating the Unique Needs of Those Who Served" illustrates the effects that war has had on soldiers from the beginning of time, well before the Bible—even before the written word—all the way through the wars of the 20th and 21st centuries, including the wars in Ukraine and Gaza and the potential for nuclear war in our time. Volume Two is "Joe's Story," an analysis of the trauma explored in Colonel Quist's earlier book: "God's Angry Man: The Incredible Journey of Private Joe Haan," published in 2010. "Joe's Story" is a loving tribute to someone author B. Wayne Quist knew as "Uncle Joe," a man who triumphed over trauma and adversity, surviving a life filled with hardship that began at the tender age of seven with the death of his mother and the onset of the Great Depression. Volume Two of "Veterans in Crisis" is a short memoir of World War II Private, Joe Haan. Everyone faces challenges in life. How we choose to confront our challenges varies and often determines the outcome. This unique book focuses on how Private Joe Haan coped with his PTSD—the severe trauma he suffered from an early age at the orphanage, trauma on the hated German farm, relief at CCC Camp, and the trauma of killing another man during fierce fighting in World War II as a decorated private soldier in General George Patton's Third Army. Through surviving essays, poetry and other writings, "Joe's Story" reveals one man's struggle to overcome human tragedy on an epic scale. Growing up poor in St. Paul, Minnesota and orphaned at seven years of age, with time spent as an indentured farmhand to a cruel and sadistic farmer, Joe was very much alone in the world.
About the author
Colonel B. Wayne Quist is the author of publications in the fields of national security, political science, and history, and spoke at the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Forum. After 9/11, he was a popular speaker on the ideology of al Qaeda and ISIS, writing and co-authoring several books and articles. He has a B.A. from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN, where he grew up, and advanced degrees from University of Southern California and The National War College in Washington, D.C. Wayne served as a private in the Marine Corps Reserve and entered the Air Force after graduation from St. Olaf. He retired as a full Colonel with 3,500 flying hours, serving in Vietnam, Europe, Middle East, and The Pentagon in Washington, D.C. His Middle East experience began in 1968 and he led a U.S. AWACS deployment into Saudi Arabia following the fall of the Shah of Iran. Over the years he has met with numerous heads of state and senior leaders in the region. After retiring from the Air Force, Wayne lived in Europe and the Middle East heading operations for a Fortune 500 company. Returning to the U.S., Wayne became a partner in an investment banking firm specializing in the sale and recapitalization of privately held companies. He serves on the boards of the Christdala Preservation Association; Kierkegaard House Foundation; Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia (CDHR) in Washington, DC; Lake City Historical Society and Heritage Preservation Commission; he was the 2003 recipient of the Northfield High School Distinguished Alumni Award. Cofounder of Veterans Empowered, Inc.