WEBVTT 00:04.040 --> 00:07.870 Alton a korea red fee a. In detroit we met a vietnam veteran 00:07.870 --> 00:11.140 whose by unemployment after escaping homelessness and drug addiction. 00:11.810 --> 00:15.110 Today thanks to a job at the a he's enjoying a whole new. Life. 00:19.460 --> 00:20.970 I'm proud to be a veteran. 00:21.700 --> 00:24.860 Today to And for office. So that comes to. 00:25.500 --> 00:28.350 Serve American to indian about health and that its. 00:29.080 --> 00:34.420 A server nine States via works from 19 seventies and 19 70 four. 00:35.090 --> 00:39.130 As a approve number of basically my job on the on. 00:39.770 --> 00:40.350 Was to take. 00:40.960 --> 00:42.840 Soldiers to found that. 00:45.080 --> 00:46.770 It go human names. 00:47.470 --> 00:48.830 And horrible. 00:50.570 --> 00:52.800 Basically bold play an. Unloaded. 00:55.340 --> 00:57.570 It came to the the a when I first down about. 00:58.330 --> 00:59.260 Seventy. Four. 01:01.610 --> 01:02.740 At that time or. 01:03.300 --> 01:05.990 They didn't know anything about mental illness. 01:07.520 --> 01:09.300 I had trouble sleeping at night. 01:10.320 --> 01:13.660 You will or demonstrators protest U.S. involvement in the vietnam 01:13.660 --> 01:16.940 war in the in a vietnam veteran a 10 hour. 01:17.750 --> 01:19.560 We were in part at all. 01:20.180 --> 01:24.760 Public from job to job state to state jobs today in new York's 01:24.760 --> 01:29.190 biggest and a warm up. I was homeless are actually are.. Sarasota. 01:30.710 --> 01:34.710 Sarasota. Two thousand more. 01:35.630 --> 01:40.470 Right out of what I lost control of everything Nan eleven. 01:41.000 --> 01:44.880 Had an impact on my post traumatic stress disorder when I saw 01:44.880 --> 01:47.470 goals planes press enter the briarwood. 01:48.150 --> 01:49.010 I lost control. 01:50.300 --> 01:54.820 Just watch and so to me all the members of the nile came back 01:54.820 --> 01:55.440 to its. 01:57.020 --> 01:58.410 It was like an expose. 01:59.290 --> 02:00.290 And I couldn't handle. 02:02.140 --> 02:07.270 And And homeless was ads of. 02:08.240 --> 02:10.400 Whale. It was a. 02:10.940 --> 02:13.010 The maddy Spears in my life there. 02:14.240 --> 02:15.720 They're gonna turn to a. 02:16.880 --> 02:22.670 I was so isolated in this day and hold its own and I didn't see 02:22.670 --> 02:23.370 any way out. 02:23.960 --> 02:26.060 I've been on the they got today. 02:26.750 --> 02:27.710 Found a way out. 02:28.890 --> 02:30.350 This is the house. 02:32.110 --> 02:32.810 Of this new. 02:33.620 --> 02:35.120 Somewhere somehow. 02:36.050 --> 02:38.140 Oh. My sister found. 02:39.370 --> 02:44.120 Curled up in the day and then all know the no there's no lights 02:44.530 --> 02:45.460 in the middle of away. 02:46.140 --> 02:47.620 Forty degrees below zero. 02:49.410 --> 02:52.430 So far we offer to the the john didn't have to say. 02:53.330 --> 02:54.370 I was admitted. 02:55.220 --> 02:57.010 Is put on award the two nor. 02:57.650 --> 03:03.430 Inside war I was diagnosed with peter. Yes the depression substance abuse. 03:04.200 --> 03:07.330 Well I had no idea what the T's worlds. 03:07.910 --> 03:12.290 The army my middle fifties for this to simpson and so and they 03:12.290 --> 03:14.220 tell me I have meant the on its. 03:14.930 --> 03:20.140 Now. Working with the a staff here that the a from out there 03:20.450 --> 03:21.370 was some along. 03:22.520 --> 03:24.680 It was other veterans dislike myself. 03:25.730 --> 03:29.970 There are suffering from mental illness and we thought we found 03:29.970 --> 03:35.010 a solution and alcohol than drones was temple where a solution 03:35.010 --> 03:36.770 but it was a long term effect. 03:37.340 --> 03:37.940 I lost it. 03:39.040 --> 03:43.390 That's a lady on have realized that the fob one than they have 03:43.390 --> 03:48.880 to say to the thing about this. Behavior. At a two part looked 03:48.880 --> 03:52.620 at people associated with the little because I didn't wanna songs. 03:53.130 --> 03:54.220 I thought it was an awful. 03:55.160 --> 03:58.920 The a in the programs and the staff in debuted at home.. First. 04:00.020 --> 04:02.980 First. Quote you could do. 04:03.800 --> 04:08.280 As for a first that here nine Edwards and was guide odds are 04:08.280 --> 04:12.030 warming and go home this job to for over a. 04:12.760 --> 04:16.810 Yeah diamond every year since june became coordinator of when 04:16.810 --> 04:17.270 this show. 04:17.940 --> 04:19.740 Our support NATO mayors. 04:20.540 --> 04:22.100 We would sit down a. 04:22.700 --> 04:23.810 Or the said. 04:24.420 --> 04:29.590 How about that fears about recovery. And evan and a a beans down 04:29.590 --> 04:31.510 in the basin a. 04:33.020 --> 04:38.250 That was live about a week joe is that the file had james said. 04:39.170 --> 04:42.730 What resistance throughout historians as then ordered is that. 04:44.130 --> 04:48.960 But act towards we was telling stories to tell his share of the 04:48.960 --> 04:52.640 term that includes various there is power in all this. 04:53.250 --> 04:55.160 I wanted to be part of the community. 04:56.000 --> 05:00.730 And it was family health that was to newington services like 05:00.730 --> 05:04.570 Amanda Houston thomas Silva was they got me back on my feet. 05:05.360 --> 05:08.260 I Says last month was hiding. 05:09.000 --> 05:13.510 As a peer support tic of it went to training behaviors like and 05:13.580 --> 05:15.120 that Masa depicted are. 05:15.650 --> 05:18.900 The of certified to support specimens with the state in this. 05:19.620 --> 05:24.340 Worked closely with jason cell lines of the veterans like myself 05:24.610 --> 05:27.270 this suffer from mental illness and substance abuse. 05:28.040 --> 05:33.310 Art today I have 15 to 20 veterans than on the with every day 05:33.670 --> 05:38.460 we do call the skills of strategies on how to live life own life 05:38.460 --> 05:43.290 terms of the day in the I couldn't couldn't imagine myself today 05:43.610 --> 05:48.550 being here and the a certified peer support to this and working 05:48.550 --> 05:51.090 with veterans to one of things that I love to do. 05:51.800 --> 05:55.440 Off part there appears one of cheap or some on kelvin. 05:56.020 --> 06:01.070 Didn't back into relations. So that was a turning point. My wife 06:01.140 --> 06:03.920 today and I'm with the more men are low. 06:04.760 --> 06:05.730 Yeah ten. 06:06.650 --> 06:07.930 Well I mean days now. 06:08.540 --> 06:10.590 Hopes in their own businesses to. 06:11.890 --> 06:15.470 Most others to see of chains of the O'Donnell. 06:16.260 --> 06:18.820 That are most homes that can say. 06:19.610 --> 06:24.460 Homelessness is not just an overhaul given abetting homes. Now meets. 06:25.070 --> 06:28.190 You gotta give from soften whole song something to. 06:28.840 --> 06:31.890 Ten of jar. Responsibility. 06:32.570 --> 06:35.460 Relations soups learning how to me of an. 06:36.170 --> 06:37.330 Homes in the heart. 06:38.780 --> 06:42.220 Having a place that she with this show on that too responsive 06:42.520 --> 06:44.050 and The sauce..