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I Will Go Back Tonight documents the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder on familial relationships of Vietnam veterans from the US Army's 5th Infantry Unit, the "bobcats" who served together in 1968. Their wives open up and talk about what it's been like living with the flashbacks, nightmares, and memories that haunt their husbands every day.

I Will Go Back Tonight documents the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder on familial relationships of four veterans from the US Army's 5th Infantry Unit, the "bobcats". The project focuses on the lives of three Vietnam veterans who served together in 1968 and one Afghanistan Veteran who came home in 2012. The landscape of the wars are vastly different, but the lasting effects after they come home are the same. Their wives open up and talk about what it's been like living with the flashbacks, nightmares, and memories that haunt their husbands every day.

FILM EXTRAS

The following video below is a diptych of two interviews conducted for the film. I read aloud an excerpt from Sam Kier's book, "Two Centuries of Valor, The Story of the Fifth Infantry Regiment," to help myself as an interviewer enter the space and time of the ambush on August 21st, 1968. On that day 17 men died in about a half hour of combat. One young man, Sgt. Marvin Rex Young, was awarded the United States Medal of Honor for his heroic actions to save others. I saw similarities between the two veterans as they listened to a story they know all too well and remember every day.

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