SERE Turned my Boyfriend from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde

The price of torture and permanent war disintegration

Have you ever read a daily newspaper story, something the whole world is screaming about — and realized you were a tiny cog in its wheel?

One Memorial weekend, 15 years ago, I woke up to a NYT story, "Adopting Harsh Tactics, No Inquiry Into Their Past Use.”

Two reporters looked into the American SERE training (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape) …