DR. EDWARD TICK is a Psychospiritual mentor and guide, an international activist and author of six books on the themes of PTSD and Moral Injury, including “War and the Soul”, “Warrior’s Return” and “Soul Medicine”. Ed has guided 19 healing trips of American vets to Vietnam, several warrior retreats in Greece, and more than 40 across the United States, including some for the US Military, where for a decade, Ed was a “a subject matter expert trainer” in PTSD and Moral Injury.

STEPHEN OLSSON, President of CEM Productions and filmmaker, has produced and directed documentary films, television series and feature news reports throughout the world for US and European broadcasters. Stephen’s work has won numerous national and international awards, including the National Emmy Award for Outstanding Director, the DuPont Columbia Award for Excellence in broadcast journalism and the George Foster Peabody Award.

DR. SHIRA MAGUEN is a Staff Psychologist on the Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Team at the San Francisco VA Health Care System, and a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UC San Francisco School of Medicine. Dr. Maguen has written extensively on Moral Injury and PTSD and is involved with both the research and clinical components of the VA’s PTSD and Moral Injury programs.

LEVIE ISAACKS served in the U.S. Army as a platoon leader in Vietnam. Levie fought in the same battle on Hill 724 in Dak To as Commander Terry Bell. Levie was decorated with a Bronze Star for heroism and an Army commendation for valor. Levie finally met Terry Bell after the war and as combat vets fighting on the same mountain, in the same horrific battle, they became very close friends.

ANDREW NEELY, “AJ”, is a Marine veteran, who saw extensive combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Returning to the US and hiding the distress of his moral injury, he retreated to a country cabin in an attempt to heal himself from his hidden wounds of war. AJ took Ed’s intensive healing retreat for veterans and went to Greece with Ed for an archetypal warrior healing pilgrimage. AJ is now enrolled in a graduate counselling program, with a focus on mental health.

REV. DR. JAN CARLSSON-BULL is a Unitarian Universalist minister, and a lifelong social activist. In 2018, fifty years after the death of her first husband in the American War in Viet Nam, Jan joined one of Ed Tick’s journeys —which was for her a truth and reconciliation pilgrimage.

LAWRENCE MARKWORTH is a US Navy Vietnam vet, diagnosed and treated for PTSD and heart disease from exposure to Agent Orange. Lawrence served a two-year deployment on a ship nearshore and offshore Vietnam. He has been working with Ed since 2016 attending several of his workshops and retreats, including a return to Vietnam trip with him in 2017, and two trips with Ed to Greece.

GENERAL KEVIN TURNER is a retired US Army Brigadier General. Kevin joined the US Army at 26 after being strongly influenced by John Wayne’s character in The Green Berets. Kevin was in the Infantry and Special Forces for 15 years during the Gulf War and with the Iraqi Kurds before shifting careers to become an Army chaplain, rising to the role of Assistant Chief of Chaplains; US Army. Kevin is currently finishing up a Doctorate in Social Work.

ANITA BELL is the former spouse, now widow of Major Terry Bell. Anita and Terry, who appear in the film, were married for 30 years. Anita has served as trainer and patient advocate in medical and home care settings. She currently coaches families with difficult to treat medical conditions and manages trials with evidence-based healing technologies.