Documentary details ex-sgt.’s rape, PTSD

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Documentary details ex-sgt.’s rape, PTSD
By Cheryl Wittenauer - The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday Nov 19, 2008 11:16:38 EST

ST. LOUIS — Retired Army Sgt. Angela Peacock once was outgoing, competitive and athletic. These days, she barely functions, trusts no one and suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder that prevents her from working.

She has gained 100 pounds and chain smokes. She lives alone in northern St. Louis County on a military pension and disability.

The story of Peacock’s struggle to recover from the trauma of combat and an alleged sexual assault by an officer premieres Wednesday in a new online documentary. “Angie’s Story” is the latest Webcast in the series “In Their Boots,” about the struggles of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and their families.

The series is a project of the Brave New Foundation, a Culver City, Calif.-nonprofit group headed by filmmaker and political activist Robert Greenwald. His films, including “Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers,” “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price” and “Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism,” are left-leaning.

But “In Their Boots” is apolitical. That was a condition of the grant from the financial backer, the Iraq Afghanistan Deployment Impact Fund, Greenwald said.


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