What would you do if, while deployed to a war zone, a detained enemy revealed he'd somehow obtained an envelope with your family's address? Five years later, still in the midst of a difficult transition home, you face another conundrum. What if the only path to forgiveness and reconciliation came through reading that enemy's correspondence with his family, a gift from your interpreter? Would you read them? Could you possibly learn to forgive, respect, and even mourn the human loss of your worst enemy?

A riveting tale of love and redemption, and the beauty to be found in the intersection of the mysterious and the terrible! Jim Enderle's powerful prose reveals the "courageous catalysts" of grief and joy which transform ethical principles into action, in war and in our daily lives. Jim Enderle has taken his own wartime experience, and the experiences of other veterans, to illuminate the path to where we can each become a "selfless catalyst for healing."

Jim Enderle is a native Chicagoan, retired Navy Chief Hospital Corpsman, and Iraq combat veteran. After his 2007 Iraq deployment, and finished his military career as the Chief of Submarine Base New London’s (CT) Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)/Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) outpatient clinic. He considers that time the most rewarding of his career.

Jim has a Masters Degree in the Education of Exceptional Students and is a regularly scheduled speaker on veterans’ suicide and transition conversations. He’s done two TEDx Talks of lessons learned through stories told in the book. He hopes to apply for others.

A long-time DJ at Connecticut College’s WCNI radio station, he uses his Saturday night slot for interviews on mental health issues between free-format music. Jim is in the process of launching a YouTube channel, The World Needs More Middle Children. Jim lives with his wife, Cindy, of 30 years in Quaker Hill, Connecticut. They have two sons, Alfonso and Lorenzo.