Excerpt from Battleground & Backroads

Purple Heart recipient and Iraq War veteran Sean Davis talks about his military career, his deployments, and the struggles he had after returning home from war. Not every veteran with PTSD is broken. Many can find ways to cope with their trauma and live with it every day. Some find that helping other people and building community helps.

This interview was recorded while shooting Rogue Cell’s new documentary Battlegrounds & Backroads. For more information on the documentary or veterans’ issues go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/roguecell.

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By Sean Davis

Sean Davis is the author of The Wax Bullet War, a Purple Heart Iraq War veteran, and the winner of the Legionnaire of the Year Award from the American Legion in 2015 and the recipient of the Emily Gottfried Emerging Leader, Human Rights award for 2016. His stories, essays, and articles have appeared in the the Ted Talk Book The Misfit’s Manifesto (Simon and Schuster), Forest Avenue Press anthology City of Weird, Sixty Minutes, Story Corps, Flaunt Magazine, The Big Smoke, Human the movie, and much more.

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