And That’s A Wrap

Hey, folks! Wow, it’s been almost a year since we started this journey, and it’s been a wild ride. Our first interviewee was also our last - we started off by interviewing Shawn Banzhaf in June of 2024, and we finished up his last interview this past Saturday, April 26th, 2025.

The First Interview

Shawn shared his Act I with us in the hot June summer heat at the Pat Tillman Veterans Center, ASU Mountain America Stadium.

By the time we made it to his Act III Interview

the team was used to working in wild locales, mountains, deserts, beaches. Come rain or shine we turned out.

Now that principle photography is over, we are putting our heads down and pushing forward through the post production phase. That means that over the next two months we’ll be find this best moments of our interviews with Shawn, Cheryl, Eric, Grant, Cris, Danny and Karen and Melvin all of the awesome Vets who shared their stories with us! Also, a big shoutout to Dr. Becky Blais from ASU who shared with us the findings from her years of studies around active duty service members and Veterans and Reservists.

This journey has been amazing, and at the heart of it was a desire to share Veteran stories and prevent Veteran suicide. As we’ve traveled the last year, it’s been really impactful to speak to members of the community and hear their stories of being personally impacted by Veteran suicide. It opened up my eyes and made me realize how important a topic this is and that we can’t stop talking about Veteran suicide and doing whatever we can to prevent it. Building strong communities for veterans is critical, and so we want to bring awareness to this issue, and encourage Veterans to seek out other Veterans. It’s easy to lose touch with Veteran community, especially after transitioning out of the military, and even more-so in a Post-Covid world. So join us in fighting Veteran suicide, because we don’t leave each other behind.