To lose your shield is to fail to protect all you hold dear, your home, your family, your brothers in arms, whether it be figurative or literal, is a loss that will surely haunt your very soul, perhaps even into the next lifetime, or so far as to many lifetimes to come. A young man now living in the heart of New York struggles through life, every moment consumed and controlled by a seemingly unexplained fear that has only grown more crippling since...