REVEAL TRUTH

“The credibility, lack of consistency, lack of telling the truth. And, you know, in this case, there was no reason for it except the same old thing, pride, careerism, covering up, you know, something that was very embarrassing. But, you know, I went into it with eyes wide open.”

“It took them 35 days from the time Pat died. It took the Army 35 days to tell the family to include the brother who was in the platoon that Pat was killed by friendly fire. The original story which was embedded and told via the Silver Star narrative was he was shot while charging uphill to counter an ambush.”

“One of the things that I think is most important for our viewers is a universal principle of how you help people heal from PTSD. And it's this, psychological wounds only heal with truth and community. So, guys who, whatever they're diagnosed with psychologically from war, the two salves they need are truth, they need to know what really happened, and they need community.”

“Part of that is what we now know biologically, the male brain doesn't fully develop till you're 25 years old. And what the part that doesn't develop is your neocortex, your thinking brain. So a lot of these guys aren't even, their brains are fully developed, and so they can't handle a traumatic event like an older guy who uses his logic-based brain to make sense of the emotions.”

“The platoon ended up, they scapegoated the platoon after it happened. They made it, they told the rest of the regiment, they told everyone higher, you know, this platoon fucked up. And that's what caused it. It was a massive, you know, series of errors by the platoon. And nothing could be further from the actual truth.”