Carolyn Schapper was stationed in northern Iraq with a military-intelligence unit from late 2005 through much of 2006, during the time when Al Qaeda bombed the Samarra mosque, unleashing sectarian fury. She took enemy fire directly twice, on her more than 200 combat patrols. "We did a lot of talking to locals, knocking on doors," she says. Coming home has been a journey--of post-traumatic stress, of activism, and of renewal.
