Videos Notice to viewers

Great Americans had a redesign issue and all of my videos are gone. I have to reload all of them. This will take some time. They will back up as soon as possible. This also means that if you linked to my videos, any of the over 25 of them, you will have to re-embed them as well. I am so sorry about this and really appreciate your patience in this. We need to get the information about PTSD out to the people who need it the most.

To say this totally sucks is putting it mildly, but I'm sure you know I'm thinking something much harsher right now,.,,,,,,it will take me at least most of the day to get them all reloaded. There won't be much posting done today because of this.

Chaplain Kathie

UPDATE

So far I have seven of them back up.

Posted Hero After War
When it comes to the wound of war that leaves a scar on the soul, Vietnam veterans have been there fighting to make sure it is treated and helping to heal all generations of veterans. Brothers taking care of brothers and...

Posted Women at War
First part in series of women at war. They have been going to where they have been needed since this nation began. They are heroes most forget and they suffer from PTSD at higher rates.

Posted The Voice, Women at War
Part of a series on women at war. This video has part of a rich history of women during combat, usually forgotten by most Americans. It also show how they too end up wounded by PTSD

Posted Women at War, Sisters After War
Part of a series of videos on women at war. This one is a tribute to my friend Capt. Agnes "Irish" Breneahan, a Vietnam era veteran from Fort McClellan. She suffered from PTSD and Agent Orange, but never stopped fighting...

Posted Women at War, Hardest Times
Part of a series of videos on wmen at war. Hardest Times You Could Imagine, are forgotten by most when we think about women in combat and what they go through. This video uses Wildflower by Skylark with the help and...

Posted Coming Out of the Dark of PTSD
Having PTSD and not knowing what it is, is like living in darkness. Nothing seems the same. When you know what it is, you can begin to heal the wounds you brought back home with you.

Posted PTSD Final Battle After War
When the boots come off, when the uniform is put away, sometimes the last battle to fight is healing from all you went through. With the knowledge you need to understand it, you can heal. It is never too late to begin to...

About 20 more to go. The other problem is that Great Americans changed their player and I cannot embed all the videos on this blog at the same time. Hero After War starts to play when the blog is opened. I'll keep changing which one plays when opened as time permits.

Check back later for links to the rest of the videos. I'll put the links in here and on the side bar.

Wounded and Waiting Videos Pulled Thanks to Sony

Wounded and Waiting troops let down by Sony Music.

by Chaplain Kathie

I've done over 20 videos on the wounded troops. Between Vietnam, the wounded from Iraq and Afghanistan, the female veterans, their families and two videos on trauma survivors with PTSD from other causes, plus homeless veterans, there has been only one dispute that could not be resolved. The last time, it was two songs by Toby Keith. The production company must have changed their minds and the songs were allowed. The problem is, the damage was already done. I had to mute the music so that video could be watched. I had to pull the video after the dispute was redacted because I couldn't get the music to play again on YouTube. It was still up on Google.

Wounded and Waiting is covered under Creative Commons because these videos are free, for eductional use and are free to pass on. I spend a lot of my own money buying CD's looking for the right one for a video I'm making. Even more hours looking for the right pictures. This video covered all the wounds they come back with. Amputations, burns and especially PTSD.

The song Leave No Man Behind was from Black Hawk Down. It was the perfect song considering what the wounded of Iraq and Afghanistan have to go through when they come home. Apparently Sony Music or Hans Zimmer have a problem with it being used to make people feel the pain the veterans are going thru so they can do something about it. It's really a shame. Of all the songs I listened to, this one hit the mark head on with the haunting music.

If you are a veteran, especially a wounded one, I hope you think twice before buying music from Sony. Apparently when it comes to leaving you behind, they are the first in line. If they are afraid they are losing money because this video was a help to veterans and a promotion of their soundtrack, they just got it backwards. This is not a simple case of file sharing some songs, it's life saving for our veterans.

If the video helped you, I'm glad and it was worth the effort of putting it together. For anyone trying to find the information on it now, I'm sorry you won't be able to watch it on YouTube or Google. It was pulled from there too.

Senior Chaplain Kathie "Costos" DiCesare
International Fellowship of Chaplains
Namguardianangel@aol.com
http://www.namguardianangel.org/
http://www.woundedtimes.blogspot.com/
www.youtube.com/NamGuardianAngel
"The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve in any war, no matter how justified, shall be directly proportional to how they perceive veterans of early wars were treated and appreciated by our nation." - George Washington