Working with veterans and their families to help them get all the benefits they are eligible for teaches you a lot about the challenges our brave men and women in uniform face here on the home front. Unless you are a veteran, or the family member of a veteran, or have really gotten to know a few veterans, the struggle is difficult to grasp. A new documentary about a veteran living in North Carolina is helping to shed some light on the subject and bring awareness to it.
Farmer/Veteran is summarized by its creators as follows:
Although the show is taking the film festival circuit by storm, it is not playing in regular theatres or streaming online yet. If you want to see it, you can check the PBS website and see if it is going to be airing on your local station.
To those of us who have worked with veterans living in the Carolinas, Alex Sutton’s story is a familiar one. Making the transition back to civilian life can be very hard, especially when dealing with PTSD or other health issues.
The VA, which is the agency tasked with looking after the health and welfare of veterans, is often slow to react or non-responsive. This is simply unacceptable to us at Monk Legal, which is why we started doing veterans’ benefits cases. We help as many veterans and their families as possible get access to the benefits they deserve.