A daughter faces demons of father's war - CNN

"Thirty Days With My Father" is a gritty memoir written by a woman haunted by what some psychologists describe as second-generation post-traumatic stress disorder.

"The trauma began in Vietnam, affected Delmer and then Christal, says psychiatrist Frank Ochberg, a trauma expert who served on the committee that defined PTSD in the post-Vietnam era.

"Christal, he says, suffered profound injury. And it stayed with her.

"Outwardly, her life appeared successful: She settled in Atlanta, owned a house, worked as an educator.

"But she always felt a hole in her soul. She didn't know her father -- or herself...."

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/11/04/us/veteran-daughter-ptsd/index.html