Vietnam veteran Jim McGarrity will speak on:

OUR INVISIBLE WOUNDED:

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

 in our War Veterans

TIME: 6:30 PM, Thursday, April 28, 2011

PLACE: Big Meeting Room, Athens Public Library,

                 30 Home St.

Appearing in Athens for the fourth time, PTSD-wounded Vietnam veteran Jim McGarrity will talk about the trauma he underwent in combat, what it was like to suffer from untreated PTSD until he finally accepted treatment a few years ago, and his life and work after treatment. A MUST-SEE, Jim has already delivered two riveting presentations to Athens Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) on mental illness for area police. And last year he delivered a moving eulogy at the Memorial Day ceremony at the Ridges Cemeteries.

He will be in town earlier in the day to address Ohio University ROTC cadets about what they may ultimately witness in others or suffer themselves. (That presentation, at the Baker Center Theater at 2:10 PM, is also open also to interested public.) 

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