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Riding my way back, a story about a veteran, a horse, and hope, a film by Robin Fryday and Peter Rosenbaum

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Riding my way back, a story about a veteran, a horse, and hope, a film by Robin Fryday and Peter Rosenbaum
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Riding my way back
Medium
videorecording DVD
Responsibility statement
a film by Robin Fryday and Peter Rosenbaum
Runtime
29
Sub title
a story about a veteran, a horse, and hope
Summary
A documentary that chronicles one soldier's journey back from the brink of suicide. In 2010, Staff Sergeant Aaron Heliker returned from multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), in addition to third-degree burns and nerve damage from a roadside bomb. At his most desperate and isolated moments, on 42 medications and suicidal, Aaron is introduced to the unlikeliest of saviors: a horse named Fred. Through caring for Fred and building mutual trust, Aaron begins the difficult process of reconnecting to the world around him and healing the terrible, invisible wounds of war that had nearly defeated him
Technique
live action
Classification
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