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Revisiting PTSD and a local soldier's story

By Jasmyn Belcher

Oswego, New York – Last year, WRVO's Jasmyn Belcher reported on Joe Godfrey Jr.'s struggle to obtain mental health care after returning from Iraq. She revisits the story as Joe Godfrey Sr., of Mexico continues to raise awareness using a film to highlight the difficulties soldiers are facing when they return home.

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