Repeated Denial

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By Brett Orzechowski Register Staff

GUILFORD -- Everything felt right to Steve DeGaetano. He flew to Cincinnati, picked up the woman he planned to marry and cut a path through winding interstates to Fort Hood, Texas, where a justice of the peace planned to marry the couple.

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Repeated Denial

He kept one eye on the highway.

The other looked for roadside bombs.

Kentucky. Tennessee. Arkansas.

Karbala. Al Hilah. Baghdad.

He first thought it was just him. Now he knows it is post- traumatic stress disorder. And memories. And nightmares. And a war he would gladly return to if the book that just dropped behind him did not make him jump out of his seat.

His wife, Jen, says his name and Steve returns to the conversation. They are three years into their marriage. His infectious laugh punctuates her stories. She blushes. They finish each...

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