BALTIMORE, Md., Sept. 11 -- The Uniformed Services University issued the following news release:
On the morning of September 11, 2001, two military doctors who now lead the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU) were at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., when American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon.
CSTS Director Dr. Stephen Cozza, then chief of Walter Reed's Department of Psychiatry, walked from his office to the Behavioral Health clinic, concerned that sensitive patients were watching live coverage of the disasters unfold on TV. CSTS Associate Director Dr. David Benedek (USU class of '91), then Walter Reed's director of Forensic Psychiat...