Featuring Appearances by
J.T. Cooper
The 1993 Battle of Mogadishu in Africa was one of the first times J.T. Cooper exchanged fire with an enemy. But the Tennessee farm boy has been a fighter for almost all of his life. Cooper, now 45, fights for fellow veterans, using music to help them find healing from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Ken Poindexter
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Tammy Bass
Tammy Bass is a mother of three. Her oldest, David, died in Iraq. In many ways, Tammy has David to thank for helping to bring her youngest Greta into her life. Tammy adopted Greta after David died, finding healing and joy in her daughter's laugh.
Robin Patty
Robin Patty is an avid hunter who can take down a deer with a handgun. She is an engine-tinkering Jeep enthusiast. And she is a former Green Beret who jumped out of Army planes training for U.S. Special Forces operations. But her exterior has changed. She has recently undergone the surgical transition process — facial and sexual reconstruction — that will bring her closer to the person she always has been inside. A woman.
Agenda
February 14, 2018
JT Cooper - The man who provided backup for 'Black Hawk Down'
The rocket-launched grenade exploded into his armored personnel carrier, and the driver's body parts instantly flew back onto the Army infantrymen inside. Disoriented, ears ringing, everything seemed to be in slow motion for 21-year-old J.T. Cooper, who, heart pounding, clutched his M-60 machine gun and looked around. His lieutenant mouthed words at Cooper, who was closest to the door: Get out! Get OUT! Cooper jerked down the handle, pushed the door and stepped into a street full of people who wanted to kill him.
February 14, 2018
Nashville: Ken Poindexter - 'This Veteran Walked Among Giants, and One Giant Fell'
Marine and Army Veteran Ken Poindexter tells us his story of honor, loyalty and incredible grief. It was awful losing a military comrade to a training accident. It was even worse handing the folded U.S. flag to his buddy's daughter at the funeral.
February 14, 2018
Tammy Bass - Gold Star Mom remembers loss of her son in Iraq
"Nothing in me doubted my son was coming home from Iraq," Tammy Bass says. "Until he didn't."
February 14, 2018
I am an American: Army veteran Robin Patty - 'A transgender Green Beret's story of transition'
Robin Patty was paralyzed in a HALO jump as part of time served with U.S. Army Special Forces, but that's not the only way her life has changed since her time in the military. The transgender veteran shares her transition story.