How an Iraq War veteran coped with PTSD by using taste mindfulness and bourbon

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An Iraq War veteran has used “taste mindfulness” to turn his life around — and forged a thriving career in the process, plus given others a way forward by his example. 

When Fred Minnick of Prospect, Kentucky was stationed in Iraq on June 24, 2004, as part of a team known as Task Force Olympia, his role in situational and combative defense was to…