Staff Hits the Road to Record Interviews and Footage for PTSD Documentary
Tim King Salem-News.com
The trip precedes the upcoming 500 Mile March for PTSD in September.
(SALEM, Ore.) - For the next ten days, Salem-News.com is on the road as we gather elements for our upcoming documentary on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
PTSD as it is commonly known, is a serious problem affecting hundreds of thousands of combat veterans and their families. A great deal of education needs to take place for all Americans on this subject.
When you work in this area, you learn that there are many approaches to treating PTSD and there are success stories and absolute horror stories also.
Our goal in this hour long program is to show and evaluate a wide range of treatment and therapy options, and we are going right to the heart of the matter.
The documentary will be formed around a series of interviews that I recorded in Iraq last summer with soldiers and Marines who are still actively engaged in the war.
We are told this is the first time in history that PTSD has been studied in this manner.
It seems clear that part of the education needs to start before troops enter the war. For those who are deploying for the first time, the insight from these combat theater interviews is a particularly valuable aspect of the program.
The group Veterans United for Truth, has already stepped forward with a donation to assist in the production of the documentary.
The group's Vice Chair, Sanford "Sandy" Cook in San Luis Obispo, California, explains that VUFT found our documentary to be the type of project that will benefit many veterans and their families, and VUFT's board made individual donations as well as a contribution from the group itself.
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