Post Incident
Graham returned to America 40 pounds lighter than when he had left home, and doctors diagnosed him with post-traumatic stress disorder. In the mid-to-late 1980s, he went to Central America, again as a freelance photojournalist. After four years in the war, he went to Alaska to live in the silence of nature.
Graham returned to Vietnam in 1999 to reconcile with his past. He revisited his second and third prisons in Ho Chi Minh City, one of which was at Bach Dang #3, a street along the Saigon River; the front portion of which had been converted into a restaurant. In 2004, a memoir was published about his Vietnam treasure hunt/prison adventure, titled "The Bamboo Chest: An Adventure in Healing the Trauma of War", in which he wrote about confronting (during seven months solitary of an eleven month confinement), a case of post-traumatic stress disorder, incurred from observing the Tet Offensive of 1968 as a child in Saigon, South Vietnam. He has provided consulting services on PTSD, as well as lecturing on the hunting of feral pigs.
June 2011, he became a weekly columnist for Human Events, focusing on the United States Constitution and the 2nd Amendment.
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