By John Boyle
When organizers asked Brandon Wilson to moderate the upcoming PTSD Town Hall, he had no hesitation, despite a schedule that often has him working 70-80Â hours a week.
“I think it’s important for me to come to this town hall because of the wide scope of experiences I’ve seen,” said Wilson, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of two tours in Iraq and the deputy director of the North Carolina Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. “I think my visibility and my personal involvement â and with me having PTSD â I think it’s important to these generations, the Iraq and Afghanistan generations, to have representation there to show that it’s OK to talk about this, that the community needs to know about it.”
The Vietnam Veterans of America, North Carolina State Council, is organizing the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Town Hall, a free event which will take place Saturday at the Mission Health/A-B Tech Conference Center. The idea is to connect veterans and their families with the wide range of services available â and to let them know that a support network of fellow veterans is there for them.
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