Transcript
When our Veterans are in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea,
all these other places,
they're there under high-threat conditions.
And when they return, the threat conditions aren't as high,
but you don't automatically feel like the threat is gone.
You still feel like a crowd is a dangerous thing
to experience.
And until you start recalibrating yourself by connecting
with the community and going into these situations,
they'll always be perceived as dangerous.
The only way to recalibrate a person is for the person to get
out and to use themselves,
to go to social situations, to reconnect to the community.
That's why community reconnection is so important.
One of the things I want to stress is that Veterans look for
and take advantage of opportunities for reconnection
to their environment and to their community.
That can be through working with Veterans non-profits,
doing things with other Veterans,
doing things that they enjoy with their family,
but the main thing is to push yourself and do things
of a social nature whenever possible.