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by Claudia Bustamante

When Roméo Dallaire was young, his family lived in hell.

Back then, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) was not common knowledge. What Dallaire’s family did know, however, was that his father—an officer with the Canadian Army—had become an alcoholic, and “it was never predictable what we would find when we got home.”

Peace would only come on the nights his father could chat with his Army buddies.

“That night he would be serene—because he had had his therapy,” said Dallaire, a Canadian senator and retired Lieutenant-General with the Canadian Army.

Speaking to more than 100 people at the University of Southern California, Dallaire […]