Heard a very good interview with Marie Tillman today, widow of Pat Tillman. She experienced the healing powers of New York City.

Marie Tillman:  About a year and a half, I guess, after Pat was killed, I had still been living in Washington State, which is where we were stationed. And I just -- I felt like I needed a change and always wanted to move to New York. So I was able, through the job that I was working at the time, to transfer to the office in Manhattan. And so I took the opportunity and just sort of threw myself into, you know, this big, crazy city, which was in hindsight one of the best decisions I could ever make.

And why do you think it was such a good decision to make?

MT: You know it just -- it gave me an opportunity to get out of my environment and really to just immerse  myself in the city. And New York is a place where there's a lot of chaos and commotion and people and, you know, I felt like I could be anonymous in a lot of ways and just start to, you know, go out into the world a little bit more.

Her book is here.  The interview is here.