Army Veterans Use Filmmaking As Therapy For Ptsd

FORT CARSON, Colo. (AP) -- In 1943, an enraged Gen. George S. Patton slapped a battle-fatigued U.S. soldier at a military hospital and accused him of cowardice, an episode that nearly ended Patton's career. Nearly 70 years later, two filmmakers - one of them Patton's grandson - are trying to help soldiers cope with what is now called post-traumatic stress disorder by getting them to tell their war stories through a movie....

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