Making The Best Years of Our Lives2023 Wall Award Finalist, Theatre Library Association How a Hollywood gem transformed the national discourse on post traumatic stress disorder. Released in 1946, The Best Years of Our Lives became an immediate success. Life magazine called it the first big, good movie of the post war era to tackle the veterans problem. Today we call that problem PTSD, but in the initial aftermath of World War II, the modern language of war trauma did not exist. The