It’s Remembrance Week in Canada, the week leading up to Remembrance Day on November 11, when the nation pauses to remember the sacrifices of those who went to war.
In this new documentary another aspect of war is discussed, the soldiers who came back, with no visible scars, but are wounded nonetheless.
Barry Stevens is executive producer and series director for “War Story”.
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This is the 32nd in a series of documentaries produced by Toronto’s 52 Media, which have been looking at various aspects of war, mostly the Second World War, and Canadian participation. Unlike the others however, “The Damage Done” looks at the effects of war on the individual.
In this case veterans of several different wars are gathered to talk about their experiences with each other.
In spite of the many years separating each conflict and experience, they relate the many similarities they have with the emotional affect.
In this case veterans of several different wars are gathered to talk about their experiences with each other.
In spite of the many years separating each conflict and experience, they relate the many similarities they have with the emotional affect.
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In this case veterans of several different wars are gathered to talk about their experiences with each other.
In spite of the many years separating each conflict and experience, they relate the many similarities they have with the emotional affect.
Though they have no scars, they all have suffered. Stevens says the idea is to show that there is a hidden cost to war for those who go and come back. He says it’s important to recognize that though they may have healed from various wounds, or perhaps have no physical scars at all, many do bear a heavy emotional burden that they carry with them all their lives.
He says that we as a country have a responsibility toward these men and women to help them in a healing process.
War Story- The Damage Done, will be broadcast across Canada on November 11, at 8 pm ET on the History Channel
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