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Vermont journalist chronicles military veteran challenges, from PTSD to burn pits to politics

An author photo of a man with a thin beard looking over his shoulder into the camera, alongside the cover of a book about military veterans with three vets carrying a large flag behind them
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Vermont journalist Jasper Craven is among the authors of a new book looking at the challenges faced by military veterans, from PTSD research to burn pits to Sen. Bernie Sanders' time on the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs.

Live call-in discussion: Vermont is home to tens of thousands of people who have served in the military, many from the Vietnam and Gulf War eras. And those veterans face challenges when they come home, from accesses to health care around PTSD and exposure to burn pits, to generational and political tensions in civilian life. This hour, we'll look at those challenges with one of the authors of a new book focused on veterans affairs.

Our guest is:

The authors are attending a live event at the Burlington location of Phoenix Books at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 13

Broadcast live at noon on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

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Connor Cyrus joined Vermont Public as host and senior producer in March 2021. He was a morning reporter at WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of Lyndon State College (now Northern Vermont University), he started his reporting career as an intern at WPTZ, later working for WAGM in Presque Isle, Maine, and WCAX Channel 3, where he covered a broad range of stories from Vermont’s dairy industry to the nurses’ strikes at UVM Medical Center. He’s passionate about journalism’s ability to shed light on complex or difficult topics, as well as giving voice to underrepresented communities.
Matt Smith worked for Vermont Public from 2017 to 2023 as managing editor and senior producer of Vermont Edition.