Documentary shows how program gives veterans an outlet for healing

Documentary shows how program gives veterans an outlet for healing

Mar. 31, 2012
Written by KRISTEN CATES

When 28-year-old Great Falls native Jesse Scollin signed up for the U.S. Army 10 years ago, he knew that he would go into combat at some point. "I was just ready to go," he said. "I wasn't sure what I was getting myself into."

What the 2002 C.M. Russell High School graduate got was work as a combat medic in Iraq in 2003, experiencing things he struggles to describe even seven years after being medically discharged from the military. He and other veterans are getting the chance to tell their stories through a new documentary being produced by a Great Falls-area native and Iraq war veteran about a relatively new program in Missoula that gives wounded and traumatized soldiers a sense of peace.

"A Brotherhood Reforged" was created by Sun River alumnus, recent University of Montana graduate and Army veteran Dan West. read more here