Making Progress in the Fight for Veterans With PTSD

PTSD Documentary Will Benefit From Video Expedition.

PTSD activist during interview with Salem-News.com's Bonnie King at the Soldier's Home in Napa, California. Salem-News.com photo by Tim King

(SIERRA VISTA, Az.) - Our quest to gather material for an upcoming hour-long television documentary on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is progressing well.

The point of this program is education for those who suffer from this type of stress, and for their families. It is overdue.

We actually started shooting for this program one year ago in Iraq, when I had the rare opportunity to interview soldiers and Marines about PTSD while they are still serving in the combat theater.

PTSD is a problem for hundreds of thousands of Americans and it is not restricted to the military. According to both Dr. Phil Leveque from Salem-News.com, and Lily Casura, PTSD activist in Northern California, wives of servicemen also sometimes develop PTSD.

There are many other reasons that people can end up with this problem. All kinds of trauma can potentially lead to PTSD.

Our team was able to rendezvous with PTSD activist Lily Casura Monday, at the California Soldier's Home in Napa, California. She has had success working with several veterans and is a great example of the type of individual we will be making contact with over the coming days.

We will issue updates when time allows and we greatly appreciate the support of those who are helping us make this vision to help PTSD vets a reality. Whether they realize it or not, it is to the benefit of every American to support veterans.

We will be speaking with veterans and doctors and therapists in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California, before heading back to toward Oregon.

We are on the road, therefore our contact via email is partly limited, so please forgive us if it takes time to return your correspondence. If you write to us about this and we do not write back, then the email was most likely lost in the shuffle. Please do not take it as a sign of a lack of interest and just write back.

Finally, anyone experiencing problems trying to reach us at our regular email address newsroom@salem-news.com, can also write to us at salemnewsroom@gmail.com.

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Tim King is a former U.S. Marine with twenty years of experience on the west coast as a television news producer, photojournalist, reporter and assignment editor. In addition to his role as a war correspondent, this Los Angeles native serves as Salem-News.com's Executive News Editor.
Tim spent the winter of 2006/07 covering the war in Afghanistan, and he was in Iraq over the summer of 2008, reporting from the war while embedded with both the U.S. Army and the Marines. Tim holds numerous awards for reporting, photography, writing and editing, including the Oregon AP Award for Spot News Photographer of the Year (2004), the first place Electronic Media Award in Spot News, Las Vegas, (1998), Oregon AP Cooperation Award (1991); and several other awards including the 2005 Red Cross Good Neighborhood Award for reporting. Serving the community in very real terms, Salem-News.com is the nation's only truly independent high traffic news Website, affiliated with Google News and several other major search engines and news aggregators.
You can send Tim an email at this address: newsroom@salem-news.com