Let me introduce Daniel Masterpiece Jones

PTSD WON'T STOP ME! 



This video project was commissioned in 2011.  After a final approval, DVD's were provided to the Department of Defense -  Resources for PTSD Support/Mental Health services.  

Why now?  

Recently while on my journey to meet again many of the young people who were in the A Backpack Journalist program, learned that this video is now being shared though the Survivorship Corp for the US Army by the contract office and the Chaplaincy Corp. (housed at Fort Jackson). This department is involved when a servicemember passes away, and assists the family with all the death benefits offered by the Department of Defense. Now as a measure to help family members learn more about the effects of PTSD, they are sharing this link.  

Also now with the Yellow Ribbon Events for military families, this PTSD presentation is presented BEFORE the service member deploys, and may be shared once home.

As you view the ending, the message that all the Nashville people are displaying - "it takes a community to help a service member".  That day, a local politician and a Buddhist priest came, plus members of the A Backpack Journalist intern team, all walking with us! 

Daniel Masterpiece Jones, a US Army military kid,  was a Backpack Journalist intern from 2010 to 2014, and remains today one my dearest friends. A Christian rapper, with a loving soul. 

I visit him soon in New Orleans...where he now lives.

Linda Dennis

 https://youtu.be/vxdZM8riFeI?si=G21jk-4JfLE5prat

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