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Vincent, Clovis,
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Yehuda, Rachel,
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yoga,
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Young, Allan,
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D
AVID
J
.
M
ORRIS
is a former Marine infantry officer and war correspondent. His work has appeared in
The New Yorker
,
Slate
,
Daily Beast
, and
Best American Nonrequired Reading
. In 2008, he was awarded a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

* Later, I would learn that I wasn't the only one changed by Dora. In his 2010 book
Lethal Warriors: When the New Band of Brothers Came Home
, journalist David Phillips describes how Dora veterans suffered a PTSD rate more than three times higher than that of a similar army battalion deployed to a different part of Iraq.

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* I'm simplifying here. The human fear response implicates many other parts of the brain, but this is the gist of what researchers have found.

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* As the classical scholar and Jesuit priest Walter J. Ong put it, “Technologies are not mere exterior aids but also interior transformations of consciousness.”

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* As Immanuel Kant famously put it in his philosophy of morals and mind, “We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.”

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* Some research has suggested that these survivors' success in the face of trauma is related to the abundance of a brain chemical known as neuropeptide Y, though the cause-and-effect relationship remains unclear: does neuropeptide Y lead to resilience or do resilient people simply have more of it?

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