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Monday, May 28, 2012

Family Remembers Local Marine’s PTSD Struggle

Family Remembers Local Marine’s PTSD Struggle
May 28, 2012
Reporting Stephanie Lucero

NORTH TEXAS (CBS 11 NEWS) – The memories of the battles he fought in Iraq came home, to Fairview, with Corporal Gregory Schneider.

It was the long, confidential conversations he had with his father that helped Schneider rise above the darkness that overwhelmed him after his return from battle in Iraq.

Schneider died at home on Memorial Day in 2010. He was killed in a motorcycle accident that happened when he tried to get onto I-75 Central Expressway at Haskell, in Dallas.

Just one day before the crash the Schneider family had gotten together for lunch, to recognize Memorial Day.

Now two years later, before today’s memorial service at DFW National Cemetery in Dallas, Schneider’s parents visited his grave and talked to CBS 11 News about their son’s accomplishments and challenges trying to overcome Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
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