AdvertisementA Veteran's Piercing True Story Leaps From Page To StageJuly 20, 2013Quil LawrencefacebookEmailIraq veteran Brian Castner (center) poses with librettist Stephanie Fleischmann and composer Jeremy Howard Beck, who are adapting Castner's PTSD memoir, The Long Walk, into an opera at New York's American Lyric Theater. (Courtesy of the American Lyric Theater)