Sunday, November 7, 2010

Caring for the invisible wounds that warriors bring home

Caring for the invisible wounds that warriors bring home
'A SOLDIER'S HEART': DAY ONE OF A PG SPECIAL SERIES
Sunday, November 07, 2010
By Michael A. Fuoco, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette


WELLS TANNERY, Pa. -- Derrick Earley steers a four-wheeler up the gravel driveway to his father's hand-built stone home and climbs off. Fit and goateed, the 23-year-old is wearing a cutoff T-shirt, camouflage shorts and cap as he shyly greets visitors, not quite making eye contact, not quite avoiding it, either.

He is surrounded by his father's 300-acre farm amid the grandeur of Fulton County. So breathtaking is this area about 10 miles northeast of Breezewood it is difficult to absorb -- rolling hills, valleys peppered with lush forests, well-groomed hay fields, and, miles away, majestic Sideling Hill, part of the Allegheny Mountains

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