Showing posts with label When Jane and Johnny Come Marching Homeless. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Eric Hall's story comes in new documentary

A Marine's Story: Documentary will feature late Jeffersonville Marine’s struggle with combat-related stress

By DAVID A. MANN
David.Mann@newsandtribune.com

Eric Hall, a Marine from Jeffersonville who struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder, made national headlines more than a year ago.

Hall was found dead in March 2008 at the age of 24, in a Florida town where he’d relocated only a few weeks before. He disappeared from a family home there while experiencing a war flashback.

Now, Hall’s story is being retold as a part of a new documentary that’s in production titled, “When Jane and Johnny Come Marching Homeless.”

His father, Kevin Hall, and mother, Becky Hall — who have since become advocates for those suffering from the disorder — sat down with documentarian Nina M. Gilberti last weekend.

“What [Gilberti is] showing is a side that people don’t see,” Kevin Hall said. “PTSD doesn’t know bipartisan politics, it doesn’t know race or creed — it’ll affect them all.”

Gilberti’s film doesn’t address the conventional definition of homelessness: Those living on the street. Instead, she said, it’s about the struggles that soldiers face when returning from war.
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