The War Within

KRON local Emmy Award winning documentary from 1982, produced by Jonathan Dann, which examines how post traumatic stress disorder has affected the lives of Vietnam veterans attending a treatment program in Menlo Park, California. Features reporter Greg Lyon interviewing veterans Josiah Lucier, David Sprinkle, Fernando Valdez and Bill Kingsbury and also Dr Harvey E. Dondershine and program Director Fred Gusman. Includes scenes of veterans from the Menlo Park treatment program parading through downtown Redwood City, California on the 4th of July. Ends with views in Washington D.C. of the November 1982 roll call of dead and missing Vietnam veterans in the National Cathedral and dedication ceremony for the Vietnam veterans memorial on Constitution Avenue. At one point Lyon reflects that: "America signed a contract with the soldiers it sent to fight [in Vietnam] ... that if they went to war we would care for and honor them in peace. They kept their half of the bargain."