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.
