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Rising Phoenix Equine Rehab – Helping Vets with PTSD August 2, 2014

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I recently learned of a great charity called Rising Phoenix Equine Rehabilitation Center  that serves two valuable purposes.  First, they help rehabilitate horses and second, they provide horse therapy to veterans with PTSD….free of charge!  If you are so compelled, please take a look at Rising Phoenix and consider donating.

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Hidden Film Restored- “Let There Be Light” ; John Huston Directed May 25, 2012

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I just read this story and had to pass on.  In 1947 John Huston (director of Maltese Falcon, among others) directed a short film on solders returning from WWII and suffering from what was then called ShellShock.  It was a breakthrough in that it showed black and white solders mixing freely in therapy and sports and showed soldiers suffering from what we now call PTSD.  The film can be downloaded for FREE from the National Film Preservation Society: (more…)