Tag: painting

Nov 11
Vietnam vet from Long Island finds solace in painting and teaches it to soldiers fighting PTSD: ‘I was getting daymares’

He’s on a new mission. A Long Island veteran who fought in Vietnam has found a passion for painting to fight his own battles with PTSD — and is now teaching the artform to help heal other soldiers struggling with the affliction. “I wasn’t only getting nightmares. I was getting daymares,” 78-year-old John Melillo, a […]