Frank Schaeffer talks with author and journalist Helen Benedict about her novel The Soldier’s House, the Iraq War, military trauma, refugees, and the hidden costs of American foreign policy.

Helen shares how years of interviewing veterans and survivors shaped both her journalism and her fiction. Together they discuss women serving in combat zones, sexual violence inside the military, PTSD, immigration, and the long emotional shadow cast by war.

This is a thoughtful and deeply human conversation about responsibility, memory, and survival.
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