Studio of Books is proud to announce the successful release of “Why Didn’t I Die: A Memoir of PTSD” by F. W. Kirkpatrick. This is now available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, SOB Bookstore, and other leading online bookstores.
Recently, this compelling memoir received commendation from Mihir Shah of the US Review of Books, highlighting that “As in life, every story has that sliver of light, of hope, and for Kirkpatrick, he finds it in friendship. His detailing of his diverse friend group is refreshing and heartwarming all at the same time. Whether they were Irish, Italian, Ukrainian, Polish, or Slovenian, each of the friends literally had their own unique background and upbringing. Still, they fit together almost seamlessly. Overall, Kirkpatrick’s work is a raw, genuine outpouring of his life journey, one that is living proof that PTSD should not be ignored but rather nurtured and treated with timely care.”
Fred Kirkpatrick served with the famed First Infantry’s Black Lions, as a combat infantryman in Vietnam 1967. He was exposed to Agent Orange and struggled to try and understand what PTSD was doing to his life and writes about those struggles as a new author in his memoir of PTSD, “Why Didn’t I Die.”
In a strange twist of irony, his father, nearly fifty years earlier, was exposed to Lethal Gas in World War I as a combat infantryman with the 4th Division in France. His father would later be found to be suffering with “Shell Shock,” that would now be regarded as a form of PTSD.
And Fred has been using his considerable investigative skills, to write a 2nd book about his ancestors called “My Great, Great, Aunt (s).”
Even though he was red-lined as a C-student in grade school by Catholic nuns and graduated at the bottom of his high school class, he was able to focus his PTSD struggles on studying and in later years was able to earn two undergraduate college degrees and a master’s degree.
“Why Didn’t I Die: A Memoir of PTSD” by F. W. Kirkpatrick presents the author’s story of his personal struggles and discusses his legacy for forty years as he suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
To grab a copy of this compelling narrative, click here: https://www.studioofbooks.org/Books/why-didnt-i-die/.
