Almost Sunrise

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FILM-RELATED WEBSITES

Almost Sunrise
http://sunrisedocumentary.com/ - The film's website includes information on the film team, film subjects, educational screenings, the "Moving Mountains" impact campaign and more.

Original Online Content on POV

To enhance the broadcast, POV has produced an interactive website to enable viewers to explore the film in greater depth. The Almost Sunrise website--www.pbs.org/pov/almostsunrise--offers a streaming video trailer for the film; an interview with the filmmakers; a list of related websites, articles and books; a downloadable lesson plan; and special features.

Organizations

Dear Veteran
dearveteran.com
A public art project that allows civilians to express gratitude for veterans, Dear Veteran was created by Katinka Hooyer.

International Association for Human Values
iahv.org
The International Association for Human Values offers stress-reduction programs to veterans suffering from moral injury and/or PTSD.

Project Welcome Home Troops
projectwelcomehometroops.org
Project Welcome Home Troops offers meditation and breathing workshops to veterans to improve their mental health.

Resilience Center for Veterans and Families
https://www.tc.columbia.edu/resiliencecenter/
The Resilience Center for Veterans and Families, housed at Columbia University, provides research and psychological services for veterans and their families.

Stop Soldier Suicide
http://stopsoldiersuicide.org
Stop Solider Suicide provides free resources and support to veterans and their families as part of its mission to eradicate soldier suicide.

Student Veterans of America
http://studentveterans.org
Student Veterans of America provides resources to help veterans achieve academic success.

Veterans Integration To Academic Leadership (VITAL)
https://www.nyharbor.va.gov/services/vital.asp
VITAL, under the auspices of the VA, helps veterans integrate into academic settings by providing various resources, including healthcare and counseling.

Veterans Trek
http://www.veteranstrek.org
Created by Tom Voss and Anthony Anderson, Veterans Trek seeks to improve veterans' quality of life through meaningful educational and outdoor activities.

Publications

For further reading and resources on moral injury, veteran suicide, veteran reintegration and complementary and alternative therapies for veterans, peruse the resources below. Viewers may also wish to consult the Moral Injury Project's catalogue of scholarly references on moral injury (http://moralinjuryproject.syr.edu/academic-references/), which includes not only academic works, but also broadly accessible discussions of moral injury in popular press and books.

News Articles

Bebinger, Martha. "Tyler Boudreau: One Marine's Struggle to Define Moral Injury." WBUR, June 24, 2013. https://www.publicinsightnetwork.org/2013/06/24/tyler-boudreau-one-marines-struggle-to-define-moral-injury/

Dokoupil, Tony. "A New Theory of PTSD and Veterans: Moral Injury." Newsweek, Dec. 3, 2012. http://www.newsweek.com/new-theory-ptsd-and-veterans-moral-injury-63539

Osherson, Sam. "When Veterans and Civilians Listen to Each Other." Psychology Today, Aug. 11, 2014. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/listen/201408/when-veterans-and-civilians-listen-each-other

Puniewska, Maggie. "Healing a Wounded Sense of Morality." The Atlantic, July 3, 2015. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/07/healing-a-wounded-sense-of-morality/396770/

Silver, Diane. "Beyond PTSD: Soldiers Have Injured Souls." Truthout, Sept. 3, 2011.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/3112:beyond-ptsd-soldiers-have-injured-souls

Steele, Jeanette. "Veteran Suicides: What Might Have Saved Them?" The San Diego Union-Tribune, Feb. 5, 2016. http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/sdut-veterans-suicide-special-report-2016feb05-story.html

Wood, David. "A Warrior's Moral Dilemma." The Huffington Post, March 18-20, 2014. http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/moral-injury

Radio and Podcasts

Conan, Neal, et al. "Moral Injury: The Psychological Wounds of War." Talk of the Nation, Nov. 21, 2012. http://www.npr.org/2012/11/21/165663154/moral-injury-the-psychological-wounds-of-war

Guntzel, Jeff Severns. "Beyond PTSD to 'Moral Injury.'" On Being, March 14, 2013. https://onbeing.org/blog/beyond-ptsd-to-moral-injury/5069/

Academic Studies

Litz, Brett T., et al. "Moral Injury and Moral Repair in War Veterans: A Preliminary Model and Intervention Strategy." Clinical Psychology Review 29.8 (2009): 695-706.

Maguen, Shira and Brett Litz. "Moral Injury in Veterans of War." PTSD Research Quarterly 23.1 (2012): 1-3. http://vva1071.org/uploads/3/1/6/2/3162163/moral_injury_in_veterans_of_war.pdf

Seppälä, E. M., et al. "Breathing-based Meditation Decreases Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in US Military Veterans: A Randomized Controlled Longitudinal Study." Journal of Traumatic Stress 27.4 (2014): 397-405. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25158633

Government Resources

"Facts About Veteran Suicide." United States Department of Veterans Affairs, July 2016. https://www.va.gov/opa/publications/factsheets/Suicide_Prevention_FactSheet_New_VA_Stats_070616_1400.pdf

Maguen, Shira and Brett Litz. "Moral Injury in the Context of War." U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/co-occurring/moral_injury_at_war.asp

Strauss, Jennifer L., et al. "Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) for PTSD." U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. https://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/treatment/overview/complementary_alternative_for_ptsd.asp

"Veterans Affairs: Better Understanding Needed to Enhance Services to Veterans Readjusting to Civilian Life." U.S. Government Accountability Office, Sept. 10, 2014. www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-676