Iraqi war veteran heals trauma through pastels at UMSL

Iraqi war veteran heals trauma through pastels at UMSL
By Aisha Sultan
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
10/29/2007
NORMANDY — Randy Johnson remembers standing at the edge of a bridge waiting for a train to pass so he could jump and kill himself. Johnson, 23, waited for hours, but no train came by.The next day, the former Iraq war veteran checked himself into a Veterans Affairs hospital in Sheridan, Wyo. During his four-month stay earlier this year at the facility, he learned that he was suffering from post traumatic stress disorder."I thought I was stronger than that," Johnson said. "I thought I could handle it."
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