Veteran war correspondent David Wood has lived for months at a time with soldiers and Marines fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has written vividly of their pride of service, intense work ethic, their unfailing generosity and unfailing humor -- and also the emotional bruises they brought home. In a brief talk and Q&A, he'll share his insights into why moral injury -- not PTS -- is the signature wound of our most recent wars.
David Wood is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has covered war and conflict around the world for more than 35 years. His second book, "What Have We Done: the Moral Injury of our Longest Wars," is based on his deep reporting in Iraq and Afghanistan and on veterans after they return. It was published by Little, Brown in November 2016. Wood is the senior military correspondent for The Huffington Post, where his series on severely wounded veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and France's prestigious Prix de Bayeaux-Calvados for international war correspondents. A graduate of Temple University's School of Media and Communication, he has been a journalist since 1970, a staff correspondent successively for Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Newhouse News Service, The Baltimore Sun and AOL's Politics Daily.