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	At Home with War is an ongoing series, produced by the news department at 88.5FM WFCR. . It uses the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to examine some of the unique effects war has on everyone. While focusing on individual and deeply personal experiences, we believe At Home with War, speaks to any generation which has faced the ever-uncertain circumstances surrounding nations in conflict.
	Anna and Peter Mohan are a married couple in their mid 20s. They met just before Peter went to Afghanistan with the Army -- and married just before he left again for Iraq. When he returned from duty the second time, Peter was a different man. With their story, we begin a new series looking at the war in Iraq and the ways it comes home. [audio]
	Former army medic Leslie Lightfoot heard about a Korean war veteran at Massachusetts General Hospital who was dying of lung cancer. He got her thinking about other vets who had no place to go. That's why she started the Veterans Hospice Homestead. Her next effort in Massachusetts will be the country's first residential treatment and education center for injured veterans and their families. The facility will be built on land donated by Mount Wachusett community college in Gardner. Veterans and their families can spend up to two years there, in one of 20 planned apartments, taking courses, and recovering from what Lightfoot calls the "unseen injuries" of war -- brain injuries and post traumatic stress disorder. Lightfoot expects there will be a lot of both of those maladies as the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan continues. [audio]
	Earlier this year, we introduced you to Peter and Anna Mohan, a young western Massachusetts couple. Peter has suffered from post tramatic stress disorder, or P-T-S-D, ever since returning from his military tour in Iraq. When we talked with Peter and Anna in April, they believed he was on the mend, but their marriage did not survive the strain. They're getting a divorce. The Mohans agreed to speak again with WFCR's Karen Brown, as a way to let others know about the effects of war on the homefront. [audio] Additional information can be found at: General clinical information from the National Institute for Mental Health General information for Mental Health America (formerly National Mental Health Association) Investigative reports by NPR into treatment of and attitudes towards PTSD by the military National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (part of the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs) Iraq and Afganistan Veterans Association/Mental Health Page
	Families across the U.S. are seeing their children leave home for Iraq or Afghanistan to fight in the war. As part of our ongoing series "At Home with War" WFCR's Tina Antolini introduces us to a family in Hadley, Massachusetts who had to say goodbye to more than one child. [audio]
	Do you know what an IED is? Rebecca Joffe Halpern doesn't think enough people do. 27-year-old Halpern grew up in Williamstown, Massachusetts. So did her her boyfriend Brent Filson, who was wounded about a year ago by an IED in the Iraq war. As part of WFCR's ongoing series, "At Home with War" Halpern explains how those three alphabet letters changed their lives. [audio]