Veterans' Voices (PSA – 60-second)

Interviewee 1:

I wanted to be in the military since I was a kid.

Interviewee 2:

I served in the United States Air Force.

Interviewee 3:

I served a total of 16 years.

Interviewee 4:

I was deployed 13 times.

Interviewee 5:

Well, my second deployment, four bombs hit my vehicle.

Interviewee 2:

And at 19 years old, that's the first time I ever saw somebody die.

Interviewee 6:

Coming back, I was raging.

Interviewee 1:

I started having pretty horrible nightmares.

Interviewee 7:

I would wake up in the middle of the night, sweats.

Interviewee 8:

I started drinking a lot.

Interviewee 9:

I felt worthless.

Interviewee 3:

I guess I never recognized it in myself.

Interviewee 10:

Eventually one day, I just walked into the VA hospital and said, “I'd like to see somebody.”

Interviewee 11:

Don't suffer alone. You've got to find that link with somebody. It'll make you let it go.

Interviewee 1:

See, it all starts with going to the VA. There's a whole community of Veterans that just want to help you out.

Interviewee 9:

It's for the guys who couldn't come back. So you owe it to them to live well, because they're not here with their families.