One of the highlights of the Mental Health America Centennial Conference earlier this month in Washington, DC, was a panel discussion: Addressing the Mental Health Needs of America's Veterans.
The panelists were:
• Mark Benjamin, investigative reporter, Salon.com, Washington ...
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LyraStorm
Thursday, June 25, 2009 at 02:45 AM
A favourite actor of mine, Ben Browder, is appearing in a film that has yet to be made though there is a short piece you can watch on youtube via the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-QoUBU6NDQ
You will have to immediately click into another youtube vid in the related videos section titled 'Ben Browder (revised due to music dispute) -- Confession of an Iraq Vet' because the sound was taken off the original.
Freeze Frame is about an Iraqi vet (played by Ben Browder) who holds up a convenience store with a gun that isn't loaded in the hope of getting killed. He gets arrested and whilst in prison is interviewed by a vietnam vet who writes a book about it which gets the Iraqi vet let out of prison (due to the sympathy of his situation). And there is more...
The piece on youtube is very powerful and anyone who is interested in the topic of how soldiers are affected on their return home should really watch it.
A favourite actor of mine, Ben Browder, is appearing in a film that has yet to be made though there is a short piece you can watch on youtube via the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-QoUBU6NDQ
You will have to immediately click into another youtube vid in the related videos section titled 'Ben Browder (revised due to music dispute) -- Confession of an Iraq Vet' because the sound was taken off the original.
Freeze Frame is about an Iraqi vet (played by Ben Browder) who holds up a convenience store with a gun that isn't loaded in the hope of getting killed. He gets arrested and whilst in prison is interviewed by a vietnam vet who writes a book about it which gets the Iraqi vet let out of prison (due to the sympathy of his situation). And there is more...
The piece on youtube is very powerful and anyone who is interested in the topic of how soldiers are affected on their return home should really watch it.