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Tell Me Where He Sleeps Tonight
By Rick Leach, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC | PsychiatRick
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The Public Execution Is Back. You Are the Target.
Pete Hegseth wants you to watch a firing squad on a livestream. Three centuries of history and psychology say the show was never meant for the man being shot.
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Rick Leach
Writer, combat infantry veteran, former police officer, and psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner.
Rick writes nonfiction and suspense fiction shaped by military service, clinical work, and his own experience living with PTSD. He is the author of Foothold and From the Fire, and the writer behind PsychiatRick on Substack.