Bill Maier

As a PTSD expert, A Boy at War was written to help my fellow combat veterans and their loved ones understand their distress as I clarified my own distressing transition from innocence to harden survivor of the Tet Offensive of 1968. As I wrote, that purpose morphed to explain to gung-ho teenagers and the people who cared about them, the cost of choosing to make a living by killing people.This healing memoir transformed my life.

I received an Honorable Discharge as an enlisted Marine and my battalion was awarded a NAVY UNIT COMMENDATION for the battle that is the climax of this book. Interwoven into this book are chapters about my 40-year history as a Vietnam veteran counselor. My papers on trauma and shame have been accepted as posters three years in a row at the annual International Neuropsychoanalytic Society Congresses. 21,000 people have looked at my article, The Science Behind PTSD and Intimacy, on the website of YourTango. I have treated over 1000 USA veterans who fought in our wars.