Transcript
I have a kit in the back of my car that I keep for
emergency purposes, and I think it's safe for anybody
to keep an emergency kit in their car,
you know, maybe a first-aid kit.
Mine includes MREs, extra water, five extra gallons of fuel.
I have a portable stove, I have fire starters, and I have --
oh my goodness, I have enough to camp in the back
of my truck at all times because I don't feel safe,
because I don't feel safe in the world, and the fact is
I don't feel safe because I am pegged at a trauma level
from Iraq that has made me feel like if I'm not prepared,
something bad will happen to me.
If I don't have everything squared away
in just the right way and cleaned and ready for combat,
something bad is going to happen to me.
It may be important to know that I haven't been in combat
in years, and years, and years already, so the fact that I
roll around with all of this equipment seems pointless.
But since going through Cognitive Processing Therapy,
my way of dealing with this is that now if I see someone
stopped on the side of the road, I try to help.
I have tools, I have all this knowledge that the Army gave me,
and I try to help as many people as I can.
And that's my way of dealing with the safety issue of
having this box at the back of truck, is I try to give back.