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Veterans Day Special: Matthew Hoh on Recovering from the "Darkness" of PTSD After Iraq War

11/11/2014

http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/11/11/veterans_day_special_former_state_dept

Veterans Day Special: Matthew Hoh on Recovering from the "Darkness" of PTSD After Iraq War In 2009, Matthew Hoh became the first State Department official to resign protest from his post in Afghanistan over U.S. policy. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew Hoh was deployed twice to Iraq. In part two of our conversation, we speak with Hoh about what happened after he blew the wh…

10/03/2014

Jack Huston portrays a complex compassionate character who not only has PTSD, but is deeply disfigured by war. I hope you all watch Boardwalk Empire for both this character ("Richard Harrow" played by Jack Huston) and the top notch portrayal of a WWI PTSD-plagued veteran, Jimmy Darmody (played superbly by actor Michael Pitt).

Please get to know these fictional characters, based on real war veteran experiences--so appropriate for today's ongoing (and useless) wars.

Jimmy Darmody:
http://youtu.be/u9uKfGYJEFY

Richard Harrow:
http://www.biography.com/people/jack-huston-21366591
video:
http://youtu.be/CsMb9idYEYY
More information on the REAL face of war from the Smithsonian:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/10/1237931/-Much-More-Than-Gangsters-and-Guns-Boardwalk-Empire-s-Richard-Harrow-and-the-Real-Faces-of-War