Joe Washam recently went hunting at a south Texas ranch with fellow veterans, including some suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Washam, a former Army sergeant who developed PTSD after he was wounded in Iraq, noticed one man’s hands shake.
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Feb. 10, 8:23 a.m.: An earlier version of this article stated that veteran Joe Washam saw a man’s hands shake as the man held his gun while hunting. He did not see the man holding a gun.
At lunch, Washam watched the soldier, who was also coping with PTSD, sit uneasily with the restaurant door at his back.
“He was clearly shaken up,” Washam said. “He was like, ‘I’m OK, I’m just going to keep looking over my shoulder.'”
Yet by hunt’s end, the man was elated: He had shot his first deer.
That veteran, Eddie Ray Routh, 27, is scheduled for trial here Wednesday in the killing of the former Navy SEAL and his friend Chad Littlefield, 35, at the Rough Creek Lodge and Resort shooting range Kyle helped design in Glen Rose, about 75 miles southwest of Dallas.
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