While heading home on leave from Iraq, two Alpha Company soldiers were cheered and applauded as they passed through the Dallas airport. »Read story

Part 1

 

Alpha Company: Their War Comes Home

 

Alpha Company hit hard by post-traumatic stress

Part 2

 

Rebuilding their lives

Part 3

 

Haunted, again and again

Part 4

 

The Battles Past and Ahead

 

Certain of their own action if not the mission

 

Series home page

 

How this series was reported

Videos

 

Dan South: Thrown from a humvee

 

Inquirer reporter Tom Infield on the series

 

Mike Sarro and John Ashenfelder: Ambush aftermath

 

Robert Jackson: Can’t shake images of Iraq

 

Lorenzo Martinez : The war outside his window

 

Anthony Callum: 'Flying by the seat of our pants'

 

Allan Dempster: A sword on S. Broad St.

 

Harold Myers: ‘Every night I cried’

Previous Alpha coverage

 

From deployment to return

Graphics

 

Timeline: Starting with the mobilization

 

Profiles of Alpha Company members

 

How the ambush happened

 

Alpha Company survey: What they're doing now

From the front lines

 

A Guard member shares e-mails to his family

Discussion boards

 

Being a soldier at war

 

Soldiers returning home from war

 

Getting help with PTSD

Getting help for PTSD

 

National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

 

Pennsylvania Army National Guard

 

Army Behavioral Health

 

Tricare Behavioral Health Plan (Military Health System)

 

David Baldwin's Trauma Information Pages

More about traumatic brain injury

 

What it is, treatment, prognosis

Getting help

 

Links to information on PTSD and TBI