12-Year-Old Works Towards Eagle Scout Rank with PTSD Film Screening
Jonah Reardon of La Grange will screen the documentary “On the Bridge” at the La Grange Theatre to raise awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder in veterans.
For some Boy Scouts, the Eagle Scout rank is achieved after seven full years of gradual effort. For a very select, very dedicated few—rarities like 12-year-old Jonah Reardon of La Grange—it can take less than two years of constant hard work. It still takes an Eagle Project, though, and Reardon will be fulfilling his on Nov. 24 when he hosts a screening of the documentary On the Bridge at the La Grange Theatre to spotlight the dangers of post-traumatic stress disorder in military veterans. Reardon got this idea after his first plan—a flagpole and flat outside the La Grange library—fell through. He heard NPR Worldview host Jerome McDonnell discussing the film and its revelations with its director, Oliver Morel. “I decided to still do [a …
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