Iraq & Vietnam War Stories

While driving to visit my son, Caleb, in Lawrence yesterday morning I was fortunate to be listening to NPR’s “Weekend Edition” when a story was aired about an Iraq War veteran, Sean Huze, who had enlisted in the Marines on 9/12/01, served in Iraq and came back traumatized and needing a way to heal.  He wrote an extraordinary sounding one man show that allowed him to begin the healing process by expressing the horrors he had witnessed and participated in, but he also received death threats on the phone from those who do not want to know what is happening in Iraq.  He proceeded to create a theater company, VETSTAGE, with the assistance of the co-writer of the film, “Crash”, Robert Moresco and then to write a second play, entitled “Wolf”, which opened in the theater space they managed to secure.  Without revealing more of the quite remarkable saga, I am recommending that you go the website for NPR and, if you so choose, that you listen to the interview with Mr. Huze.  The company is composed of veterans, men and women, from the last several wars, including Vietnam vets, though they are primarily Afghanistan and Iraq War vets who are using the experience of acting to face their demons, much like the men who were depicted in “No Unwounded Soldiers” used drama therapy to heal.  The website is http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17044212

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