Trauma changes people: It changes values, priorities, worldviews, and most of all it changes how we relate to others. Painful, life-threatening experiences take people beyond the normal day-to-day life, leaving them stuck behind defensive walls that keep them from re-entering the world they have always known as "home." So how does it happen? How do we lose the loving closeness with those around us? And better yet, how do we re-gain what pain has robbed us of? "Down Range" is not only a book explaining war trauma it is required reading for anyone seriously interested about how to make healthy transitions from war to peace.