Since the late 1990s, there have been a number of news stories in Can- ada with headlines like "Casualties of Peace" and "From National Hero to Park Bench Drunk,'" reporting on the prevalence of mental illness, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among Canadian Armed Forces personnel. In January of 1997 Canada's Department of National Defence carried out an epidemiological survey…
The Alternate Routes Collective gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance of the Carleton University community; the Departments of Sociology and Anthropology and its Chair; the Dean of Arts and Social Sciences; the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research; and the Vice-President of Research. We also wish to gratefully thank all of the anonymous reviewers and Kathryn Atkinson for her wond…