War Child
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Combat Trauma, and the Search for Peace
What War Child Is
War Child is a memoir about how trauma shapes a life long before war ever begins—and how combat compounds what was already there.
It traces the line between adverse childhood experiences and sustained combat stress, showing how both alter identity, attachment, and the nervous system.
This book moves through deployments, brotherhood, violence, humor, breakdown, and survival, weaving lived experience with psychological insight. It speaks to veterans, trauma survivors, clinicians, and readers who want to understand what war does not just in the moment—but over a lifetime.
At its core, War Child is about learning how to come home when your body and mind were trained to survive elsewhere.
What War Child Is Not
This is not a political argument.
It is not a recruitment story or a celebration of war.
It does not glorify violence or pretend that strength means silence.
War Child does not offer simple answers, patriotic mythmaking, or clean resolutions. It tells the truth as it was lived—messy, human, and unfinished.
