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Here are some helpful links, films, books, and more…
Explore a range of multimedia and traditional resources devoted to helping veterans and their families with the deployment cycle. Read, watch, and educate yourself on topics such as transitioning to home, uncovering signs of emotional problems, and dealing with the trauma of war.
Films and Videos
Meet the Bangor Troop Greeters and discover how doing a little can mean so much. By Aron Gaudet.
Interviews of veterans of all eras; before they joined the service, training, deployment and coming home. By Jay Craven
The War Tapes
One National Guard unit deployed to Iraq equipped with cameras. The first war movie filmed by soldiers themselves, by Deb Scranton.
A documentary series about the impact the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are having on people here at home.
Sesame Street’s Talk, Listen, Connect: Deployments, Homecomings, Changes
Designed to support military families with children 2-5 who are experiencing deployment or a parent’s return home changed due to a combat-related injury.
A learning series to help those who assist Service Members and families following deployment to war.
Military Youth Coping with Separation: American Academy of Pediatrics
Children with deployed parents speaking about their experiences, and more.
The Wounds Withing: Pentagon Channel
30 minute video on war-zone stress provided by USUHS.
Books for general audiences
- Down Range to Iraq and Back, by Cantrell and Dean
- Finding My Way: A Teens Guide to Living with a Parent who has Experienced Trauma, by Sherman and Sherman
- While They’re at War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront, by K. Henderson
- The Things They Carried, by T. O’Brien
- After the War Zone: A Practical Guide for Troops and Their Families, by Slone and Friedman
Links
www.veteransandfamilies.org/home.html
www.essentiallearning.net/student/content/sections/Lectora/MilitaryCultureCompetence/index.html
