In helping the TV show 'This Is Us' develop a character with PTSD, AP journalist and Marine Corps veteran jimlaporta learned a lot about himself and his own experiences, too.
and had been hired to help craft the Vietnam War storyline in season three of the show. The interview was to go over the verisimilitude of the show — the blending of fiction with the memories of a real- life war and its aftermath.
“That’s our show,” he told me. “I’ve always felt that the show, if you had to pick one thing, was about losing a parent — about grief and about the trauma that comes with that unexpected loss.”I watched step on an improvised explosive device. I told them about my survivor’s guilt. About my depression.
I remember the night of Sept. 24, 2019, vividly. It was a day after my father’s birthday. He had died four years earlier, and his death was why I started watching the show. “I wanted everyone that I knew to watch it — family, friends, people in the area,” he said. “I was proud and just excited to know that his name is being remembered. I’m a firm believer that when you say their names, they’re not forgotten.”I hear the sound of Ventimiglia’s clapping hands as he tries to quiet production assistants and cameramen on Paramount’s soundstage 20.
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