Invictus Games an Amazing Experience

And these games, you know, you realize that to have PTSD you don’t have to deploy anywhere. It could be something could have happened at work. We are starting to… the CDS is really pushing this operation honour and stuff and, you know, there’s stuff that goes on in the military that are just starting to
come to light now and people have been battling all this for like maybe twenty years, some people so it’s really nice at these games. You get to meet everybody and you know their story and you’re like, “Oh my God, I’m not alone.” And that’s one of the biggest things. Everybody talks about it but until you actually sit down and talk to people that experience the exact same things, you know, emotions are crazy. You can go from zero to sixty in, either way you can be happy and laughing and then sixty seconds later you could be crying and the same way. So these games are, it’s awesome to actually meet people and I got a new family.

The first camp I went to training and then I went to my room. The second camp I did more, you know, socializing. You got to do it. It’s one of the best things you can do to heal are these games and thanks to Prince Harry for starting it because it is amazing, you know, Canada is not the only one, you’re not the only one. Every country has got them, you know, people with injuries, physical or mental, and it’s just amazing. Even my wife talked me into doing it. I was ready to quit a number of times, even before the first camp and she was just like, “No, stick it out.” And we always had a rule with the kids, you gotta try it. You can’t quit and I am so glad that I didn’t quit. I would have probably regretted it for the rest of my life. These games are amazing.