Georg-Andreas Pogany is the special forces soldier who was sent home from Iraq and charged with cowardice after asking to speak a counselor when images of a body blown apart kept resurfacing in his mind to the point where he thought he was having a nervous breakdown. The charge has been reduced to derelection of duty and Pogany will stand trial. He faces a six month sentence and a dishonorable discharge if convicted.

Today's Denver Post has a long feature on Pogany, including his version of what happened. Pogany was interviewed in his lawyer's office.

Georg-Andreas Pogany's eyes honed in on the white body bag near the door. Inside was the mangled corpse of an Iraqi man, a hole where his chest should have been. Pogany, a 32-year-old staff sergeant attached to the elite Special Forces, said he stuffed the image to the back of his mind, unfazed.

A few hours later, the image came back with a vengeance. Pogany said he couldn't breathe. His body shook. He vomited again and again. As morning dawned on Sept. 29, Pogany said he thought he was headed for a nervous breakdown. He asked his commander for help.

"Get your head out of your (expletive)," Pogany recalled the commander saying.

Post columnist Jim Spencer provides his views on Pogany: