ABYN202 - ISLAND OF WARRIORS HOME VIDEO SCRIPT FINAL, 8/27/14
The Futuro Media Group
America By The Numbers with Maria Hinojosa: Island of Warriors
PBSd FINAL SCRIPT 8/27/14
TIMECODE
VISUALS
NARRATION/AUDIO
01:00:00:06
TEASE
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
UP NEXT: GUAM.
GUAM SUNSET
01:00:02:07
SOT BEVACQUA INTV
W. MARIA
01:00:05:18
B-ROLL GUAM FLAG
AND NAVY BASE
01:00:08:17
SOT CALVO INTV
01:00:13:05
B-ROLL US NAVY
PARADE
SOT AGUON INTV
GOVERNOR CALVO: We are the most patriotic
Americans that you’ll see anywhere
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
THEY SERVE IN THE MILITARY IN SUPRISING
NUMBERS.
MAGGIE AGUON: Boom. You’re going to war. But
when we come back, what happens to us?
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
A POPULATION OF UNSUNG AMERICAN
WARRIORS IN THE PACIFIC.
01:00:16:16
B-ROLL VET OUTSIDE
JIMMY PANGELINAN: What is it gonna take for
STORE, FAMILY PHOTO them to know that we’re here? I don’t know.
01:00:19:16
SOT VETERAN
ROUNDTABLE
01:00:22:09
01:00:23:05
01:00:26:05
01:00:30:15
01:00:40:05
MARIA HINOJOSA: You’re in pain everyday?
VICTOR DUNGCA: Yes
SOT DUNGCA INTV W.
MARIA
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
ARE THEY FORSAKEN BY THE COUNTRY
B-ROLL ROLAND IN BAR THEY SWORE TO DEFEND?
SOT ADA INTV W.
MARIA
TITLE SEQUENCE:
AMERICA BY THE
NUMBERS
WITH MARIA
HINOJOSA
ROLAND ADA: I can’t get the help that I need.
And I need the help now.
MARIA HINOJOSA STAND-UP:
THIS IS THE NEW AMERICA. BLACK,
BROWN, ASIAN, LGBT, IMMIGRANTS. THE
COUNTRY IS GOING THROUGH A MAJOR
DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFT AND THE NUMBERS
SHOW IT.
LIZETTE WILLIAMS: The face of the U.S. has
changed.
01:00:42:06
CHRISTINA IBANEZ: We’re Americans, we
care about the same things. But yet we also
want to preserve our culture.
01:00:47:18
GRAHAM THOMAS: I just see it destroying
what we had planned to happen here.
01:00:51:14
MARIA HINOJOSA STAND-UP:
BY 2043 WE WILL BE A MAJORITY NONWHITE NATION.
01:00:55:09
NORM GISSEL: We are making as we speak a
new America. And it's a marvelous moment in
American history.
01:01:01:16
OMAR SHEKEY: Everybody’s voice is important
to this debate.
01:01:04:17
01:01:10:08
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01:01:24:18
01:01:30:02
01:01:38:04
DISCLAIMER:
THIS PROGRAM
CONTAINS MATURE
SUBJECT MATTER.
VIEWER DISCRETION IS
ADVISED.
ANCHOR INTRO
MARIA HINOJOSA STAND-UP:
WELCOME TO AMERICA BY THE NUMBERS,
I’M MARIA HINOJOSA.
BEHIND EVERY NUMBER THERE’S A STORY
AND TONIGHT’S NUMBERS TELL A
DRAMATIC ONE.
01:01:47:01
01:02:03:07
META-DATA INFO-GFX
TITLE: ISLAND OF
WARRIORS
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
2.6 MILLION AMERICANS HAVE BEEN
DEPLOYED IN THE WARS IN IRAQ AND
AFGHANISTAN SINCE 9/11. MORE THAN
HALF STRUGGLE WITH PHYSICAL OR
MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMS STEMMING
FROM THEIR SERVICE. AS MANY AS ONE IN
FIVE SUFFER FROM POST-TRAUMATIC
STRESS DISORDER.
01:02:06:00
01:02:07:09
CREDITS:
ANCHOR
MARIA HINOJOSA
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
IT’S KNOWN AS THE TIP OF THE U.S. SPEAR
IN THE PACIFIC. A TINY ISLAND SMALLER
THAN NEW YORK CITY WITH FEWER THAN
200,000 PEOPLE. GUAM IS AN
UNINCORPORATED U.S. TERRITORY 6000
MILES AWAY.
PRODUCED &
DIRECTED BY
ROSS TUTTLE
EDITED BY
NICK AUGUST-PERNA
DIRECTOR OF
PHOTOGRAPHY
PAUL DE LUMEN
BEAUTY SHOTS OF
GUAM, THE OCEAN,
ETC.
MILITARY B-ROLL
01:02:16:07
01:02:23:19
GFX 1:
MAP OF PACIFIC
SHOWING LOCATION
OF GUAM IN RELATION
TO CONTINENTAL US
AND CHINA
MARIA SOT
SHORT, AS PART OF
OPENING MONTAGE.
MARIA HINOJOSA: I have never seen anything
like this. An entire series of photographs in the
airport dedicated to fallen soldiers.
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01:02:33:16
01:02:35:02
01:02:39:19
01:02:41:19
B-ROLL OF GUAM
VICTOR ROGERS: OK, K57 Vet Talk listeners,
LIBERATION DAY OVER we have the honorable governor Eddie Baza
RADIO SHOW K57 VET Calvo. Thank you, Sir, for coming aboard.
TALK /
LOWER THIRD: VET
TALK RADIO SHOW
B-ROLL OF GUAM
GOVERNOR CALVO: It’s a pleasure and an
LIBERATION DAY OVER honor to be here, especially as we lead up to the
RADIO SHOW K57
Liberation Day festivities.
VET TALK
LOWER THIRD: EDDIE
BAZA CALVO,
GOVERNOR OF GUAM
01:02:45:00
LOWER THIRD: 69TH
ANNUAL LIBERATION
DAY
01:02:46:07
VICTOR ROGERS: Coming here from outside, I
don’t think people realize how much Guam’s
B-ROLL OF GUAM
community revolves around the service to the
LIBERATION DAY OVER country, the family members that have served, the
RADIO SHOW K57
aunts and the uncles and the brothers, and it’s just
VET TALK
amazing.
01:03:04:15
01:03:07:10
01:03:15:11
B-ROLL OF GUAM
LIBERATION DAY
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
THE MEN AND WOMEN OF GUAM ARE U.S.
GFX 2:
CITIZENS WHO SERVE IN THE MILITARY AT A
MILITARY SERVICE PER RATE THAT’S THREE TIMES HIGHER THAN
CAPITA
THE REST OF THE COUNTRY.
GFX 3:
DEATHS PER CAPITA
MARIA STAND-UP:
AND IN THE WARS IN IRAQ AND
AFGHANISTAN, PACIFIC ISLANDERS HAVE
THE HIGHEST RATE PER CAPITA OF
CASUALITES AND DEATHS...THE ULTIMATE
SACRIFICE.
01:03:22:04
B-ROLL LIBERATION
DAY PARADE
SOT AT RADIO SHOW
GOVERNOR CALVO: We are living in paradise,
and all this is just as a result of some folks that
have signed up to put on a uniform and sacrificing
everything. Everything for what we are enjoying
today.
01:03:37:20
B ROLL SOLDIERS AT
LIBERATION DAY
PARADE
MARIA HINOJOSA STAND-UP:
I CAME HERE TO FIND OUT WHY SO MANY
OF GUAM’S PEOPLE HAVE CHOSEN TO
BECOME WARRIORS FOR A COUNTRY HALF
A WORLD AWAY AND SOME SAY GET TOO
LITTLE IN RETURN.
01:03:48:18
B-ROLL GUAM CITIZENS
/
GFX 5: NUMBER OF
GUAMANIANS THAT
ARE VETERANS
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
ACCORDING TO GUAM’S OFFICE OF
VETERANS AFFAIRS, AT LEAST 1-IN-8 ADULT
GUAMANIANS IS A VETERAN, AMONG THE
HIGHEST PERCENTAGES OF ALL U.S.
STATES AND TERRITORIES.
01:04:00:06
GFX 4:
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
VA MEDICAL SPENDING BUT IN 2012, GUAM RANKED DEAD LAST IN
PER VETERAN
PER CAPITA SPENDING ON MEDICAL CARE
BY THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS, OR THE VA.
B-ROLL VARIOUS MEN
SITTING IN MEDICAL
THIS IS AT A TIME WHEN MANY MEN AND
FACILITY WAITING
WOMEN FROM GUAM ARE RETURNING FROM
ROOMS /
WAR WITH MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH
CHALLENGES.
PORTRAIT OF ROLAND /
01:04:19:02
LOWER THIRD:
ROLAND ADA,
VETERAN
01:04:26:09
ROLAND OWN VIDEO /
01:04:29:10
LOWER THIRD:
ROLAND HOME MOVIE
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
34-YEAR-OLD ROLAND ADA SERVED TWO
TOURS OF DUTY IN IRAQ AS A COMBAT
MEDIC.
ROLAND ADA: I’m here in Iraq. I’m barbequing
here with the Guam reserve guys.
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01:04:33:11
ROLAND SELFIE VIDEO MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
IN IRAQ
HE WAS DISCHARGED IN 2013, AND
RETURNED TO GUAM WITH A DIAGNOSIS OF
POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER, OR
PTSD, WHICH AFFECTS AS MANY AS ONE-INFIVE IRAQI WAR VETERANS.
01:04:44:14
ROLAND SELF-SHOT
VIDEO
ROLAND ADA: What’s up guys? This is Rol, your
brother, you know guy that’s in Iraq and stuff. I’m
not weird but I carry this thing around everywhere
I go, even to go use the phones, go eat chow, go
use the computer somewhere, you know. Um,
yeah, this is it.
01:05:07:16
ROLAND SELF-SHOT
VIDEO
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
THE SYMPTOMS OF PTSD INCLUDE
FLASHBACKS, ANGRY OUTBURSTS,
INTENSE EMOTION, AVOIDANCE AND
WITHDRAWAL.
01:05:18:18
B-ROLL ROLAND AND
FAMILY BBQ’ING AT
THEIR HOUSE.
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
ROLAND IS NOW BACK AT HOME LIVING
WITH HIS FAMILY, IN A SMALL FOURBEDROOM HOUSE BEHIND THEIR FOOD
MARKET.
MANY OF HIS RELATIVES INCLUDING HIS
COUSIN, UNCLE, AND FATHER ARE ALSO
VETS.
01:05:30:17
01:05:37:05
SOT ROLAND AND
BROTHER AT TABLE
WITH FAMILY
KEN JOE ADA: Because of PTSD and you know,
what's going through his head, in my opinion, my
brother's like self-confidence, has been so, uh,
you know, damaged.
LOWER THIRD:
KEN JOE, ADA
ROLAND’S BROTHER
01:05:40:06
ROLAND ADA: You know, my brother would
always: "Hey bro, what are you doing?" I was like:
"Nothing, just stay at the house." "Uh let's go
watch a movie. You know, go do this or that."
"Nah, I'm allright. I’ma stay home."
01:05:51:21
KEN JOE ADA: I would joke with him and tell him
you know: "If you want a girlfriend man, you got to
go out there and get her. She ain't gonna walk into
your bedroom and (people laugh)."
01:06:02:03
01:06:04:16
SOT ROLAND INTV W.
MARIA
MARIA HINOJOSA: Why did you decide to enlist?
ROLAND ADA: My uh godmother uh she came
into our store one day, she was wearing, the army
green uniform. To me she looked like somebody I
wanted to be. I wanted to wear that nice starched
uniform. I wanted to to look good and people to
notice that hey there's that guy who's helping
serve our country.
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01:06:29:12
B-ROLL OF MILITARY
RECRUITING OFFICE
AND SERGEANT
FERNANDEZ IN HIS
OFFICE
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
LAST DECADE, WHEN THE WARS IN IRAQ
AND AFGHANISTAN WERE AT THEIR PEAK, 4
OF THE U.S. ARMY’S TOP RECRUITERS
WERE FROM GUAM.
01:06:37:09
01:06:43:06
01:06:43:09
ENLISTMENT IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS
DOUBLED WHILE IT WAS PLUMMETING
FERNANDEZ PORTRAIT NEARLY EVERYWHERE ELSE IN THE US.
SHOT
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
LOWER-THIRD: SGT.
SERGEANT FIRST CLASS GONZALO
GONZALO FERNANDEZ, FERNANDEZ WAS A TOP PRODUCER FOR
U.S. NATIONAL GUARD THE NATIONAL GUARD, WINNING
RECRUITER OF THE YEAR THREE TIMES IN A
ROW.
01:06:51:01
SOT SGT. FERNANDEZ. GONZALO FERNANDEZ: In every village on
INTV. WITH MARIA
Guam you're gonna find a big amount of people
who served in the military. It's a family tradition to
do it.
01:06:58:02
SOT SGT. FERNANDEZ. MARIA HINOJOSA: So that must mean that your
INTV. WITH MARIA
job is a lot easier than in other places
01:07:04:02
SOT SGT. FERNANDEZ. GONZALO FERNANDEZ: The success I have
INTV. WITH MARIA
here, I, I, I probably couldn't duplicate anywhere
else because I'm not sure that the people of those
places are as patriotic as the people on this
island.
01:07:13:09
LOWER-THIRD:
MICHAEL BEVACQUA,
UNIVERSITY OF GUAM
M. BEVACQUA
PORTRAIT SHOT /
01:07:19:09
SOT M. BEVACQUA
INTV. WITH MARIA
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
MICHAEL BEVACQUA, A HISTORY
PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF GUAM,
THINKS THE NUMBERS TELL A DIFFERENT
STORY.
MICHAEL BEVACQUA: A lot of it has to do with
the shininess and the niceness of the military.
01:07:26:02
01:07:40:13
01:07:55:09
GFX 5: COMPARING
POVERTY LEVELS AND
UNEMPLOYMENT
RATES FOR U.S. AND
GUAM
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
GUAM’S UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS ALMOST
DOUBLE THE U.S. RATE. AND NEARLY A
QUARTER OF THE POPULATION LIVES IN
POVERTY.
B-ROLL GUAM
POVERTY,
THAT’S IN STARK CONTRAST TO THE WELLRESOURCED US MILITARY WHICH OCCUPIES
ALMOST 30% OF THE ISLAND.
MILITARY PRESENCE BROLL
MILITARY PRESENCE B- MICHAEL BEVACQUA: Guam is one of the most
ROLL
militarized places in the world. And it seems like
there’s this excess of resources. And so I for me
that’s why a lot of them join. Because they see it
as this clean green place that offers all these
economic possibilities and opportunity.
MARIA AND M.
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
BEVACQUA WALKING
HISTORICALLY, THE ARMED FORCES HAVE
ALONG WW2 MEMORIAL ALWAYS PLAYED A CRITICAL ROLE IN
GUAM’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE US.
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
MICHAEL TOOK ME TO ASAN OVERLOOK
WHERE THE DEFINING MOMENT IN GUAM’S
MODERN HISTORY OCCURRED.
01:08:07:12
SOT M. BEVACQUA AND MICHAEL BEVACQUA: In terms of remembering
MARIA
World War II, this is sort of a central location.
Here, if if you look over there, you have the main
point of invasion for US forces in 1944.
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01:08:19:13
ARCHIVAL STILLS FROM MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
THE WAR
THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION OF GUAM IN
WORLD WAR II WAS PARTICULARLY
BRUTAL. MANY GUAMANIANS, OR
CHAMORROS AS THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
ARE CALLED WERE CONFINED IN
CONCENTRATION CAMPS; SOME DIED EN
ROUTE, OTHERS WERE TORTURED, RAPED,
BEHEADED, OR STARVED TO DEATH. BY THE
TIME THE U.S. MARINES ARRIVED, IT’S
ESTIMATED THAT NEARLY 10% OF THE
POPULATION HAD BEEN KILLED.
01:08:43:13
SOT M. BEVACQUA AND MICHAEL BEVACQUA: Chamorros would meet
MARIA
American soldiers for the first time after they had
pushed the Japanese north. And the Chamorros
would say, “Thank you for saving us!” And the
Americans would say, “We didn’t know anyone
lived on this island. People live here?”
01:08:57:01
B-ROLL OF MILITARY,
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
“AMERICAN” PRESENCE GUAM BECAME A U.S. TERRITORY IN 1950,
ON GUAM
AND LIKE PUERTO RICO, ITS RESIDENTS
HAVE U.S. CITIZENSHIP. THEY CAN ENLIST IN
THE MILITARY, BUT THEY CAN’T VOTE FOR
THE PRESIDENT WHO WILL SEND THEM TO
WAR.
GUAMANIANS ELECT A DELEGATE WHO
SERVES IN THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, BUT THAT DELEGATE
CAN’T VOTE.
AND DESPITE ITS CONNECTION TO THE US,
BEVACQUA SAYS AMERICANS ARE STILL
LARGELY IGNORANT ABOUT GUAM.
01:09:22:09
SOT M. BEVACQUA AND MICHAEL BEVACQUA: Some people say oh
MARIA
Guam wow. Central America. Guam wow. South
America. Guam, really? You look so light for an
African.
01:09:35:07
01:09:40:22
01:09:41:17
01:09:49:00
01:09:52:22
B-ROLL MARIA AT
TABLE WITH GUAM
VETERANS
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
I MET WITH A GROUP OF VETERANS TO FIND
OUT WHAT SERVICE IN THE U.S. MILITARY
MEANS TO THEM.
SOT W. MARIA AND
GROUP AT TABLE /
MAGGIE AGUON: Being a Chamorro, joining the
military, I represent my island. And I want to put it
on the map.
LOWER THIRD: MAGGIE
AGUON, VETERAN
SOT MAGGIE W. MARIA
AND GROUP AT TABLE / JIMMY PANGELINAN: What is it gonna take for
them to know we’re here? I don’t know. My two
LOWER THIRD: JIMMY sons: “Dad I want to go military.” I tell um: “Don’t.”
PANGELINAN,
“But I want to follow you your footsteps.” I say:
VETERAN
“How son? I got P—severe PTSD.” It took me
twelve years to finally get a settlement. Twelve
years. Why so long?
01:10:09:23
MAGGIE AGUON: I’m going on what 7-8 years,
I’ve not yet talked about what I’ve known, what
I’ve saw, what I went through.
01:10:19:14
MAGGIE PORTRAIT
SHOT
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
MAGGIE AGUON WAS THE FIRST WOMAN
FROM GUAM TO VOLUNTEER AFTER 9/11.
DURING A TOUR IN IRAQ, SHE SUFFERED A
HEAD INJURY WHEN HER VEHICLE WAS
STRUCK BY AN IED.
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01:10:32:01
SOT MARIA
MARIA HINOJOSA: Would you say that you have
PTSD?
SOT MAGGIE
SOT EDIE REYEZ
SOT MARIA
SOT BILL CUNDIF
MAGGIE AGUON: I, I, I’ll be honest to you. I get,
sometimes I get emotional. And when I see things
on TV, I start breaking down. Ah, when these two
guys came back from, you know, every time they
come back, its—you know you get that flashback.
And I mean even me, I almost didn’t make it
home. But God knock on wood that I had an angel
on my side that that made me come home. Uh,
why has it taken this long for me to talk to
somebody? I don’t know.
01:11:15:12
01:11:16:00
LOWER THIRD: EDDY
REYEZ, VETERAN
EDDY REYEZ: I think that’s pretty typical of what
we experience here on Guam, about not being
recognized for who we are and what we
contribute.
01:11:24:19
01:11:31:23
LOWER THIRD: BILL
CUNDIFF, VETERAN
MARIA HINOJOSA: So what happens, when a
congressional delegation comes to Guam?
BILL CUNDIFF: You talk to them, you try to give
them the right information. But you get this stare.
And they always come up with, you know, we
don’t have the money. It’s always like that. They
don’t have the money. They don’t have the
money.
01:11:48:15
SHOT OF ROLAND AND MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
FAMILY, ROLAND WITH THESE VETERANS SAY THE LACK OF
HIS DOG
AWARENESS AND THE LACK OF MONEY,
TRANSLATE INTO A LACK OF SERVICES.
LIKE THE SPECIALIZED CARE THAT
SOMEONE LIKE ROLAND NEEDS.
01:12:01:05
SOT ROLAND AT
COMPUTER
ROLAND ADA: It's called the PTSD program
locator. So it tells me to enter my address. Five
options here. But the closest one so far looks like
Hawaii. It's a 3,803 miles, .22 miles. And then you
got Alaska, which is the next one. That's ridiculous
(laughs)…for me, that's why I just stay home.
01:12:32:20
B-ROLL ROLAND
WATCHING TV
01:12:38:19
LOWER THIRD:
ROLAND HOME MOVIE
01:12:40:17
ROLAND OWN VIDEO /
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
ROLAND IS STILL BATTLING TRAUMATIC
MEMORIES OF HIS SERVICE IN IRAQ.
ROLAND ADA: Right now, this is ahh…we’re at
the sight of a ******* IED. It went off. It’s a pretty
big bomb that went off. Fire over there, and
there’s another fire over there.
ROLAND ADA: We heard this bomb go off from…
01:12:59:14
01:13:01:00
SOT AND IMAGES OF
IRAQ ON ROLAND’S
COMPUTER.
ROLAND ADA: That’s me right there.
MARIA HINOJOSA: What are you doing there?
ROLAND ADA: This… there’s an older gentleman
in here and I was working on him ‘cause he was
he was actually alive. And the IED that went one
off was kind of right over here in the corner. The
kids were standing right around here and they
were, you know, waving at us as we were driving
by, but we didn’t expect them to try to blow us up.
01:13:02:21
01:13:23:13
MARIA HINOJOSA: They were trying to kill you?
01:13:25:13
ROLAND ADA: Yeah. This is a piece of one of
the child--children’s head… there was three.
That’s all we found, and another foot…
01:13:37:05
SOT ROLAND AND
MARIA AT COMPUTER
ROLAND ADA: I think of things like when I’m
driving, just driving on the road and and you’re like
those those fleeting thoughts of I could just let the
steering wheel go or why don’t I just run my truck
into the wall?
01:13:54:07
MARIA HINOJOSA: Every day? Once a week?
01:13:56:10
ROLAND ADA: At least… [SIGH] two or three
times a day.
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01:14:04:11
01:14:12:18
01:14:16:04
B-ROLL OF VET
CENTER EXTERIOR
AND INTERIOR
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
THE ISLAND’S V.A.-RUN VET CENTER
CATERS TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS
OF COMBAT VETERANS. ITS LEADER,
DR. SANTOS PORTRAIT DOCTOR EDWARD SANTOS, SAYS IT CAN’T
KEEP UP WITH DEMAND.
LOWER THIRD:
EDWARD SANTOS,
GUAM VET CENTER
SOT DR. SANTOS INTV. MARIA HINOJOSA: So do you feel that you’re
WITH MARIA
living up to giving as much as you can to the vets
here on Guam?
01:14:21:19
DR. SANTOS: Oh no. I’m doing my best, but I
don’t think we ever can do enough.
01:14:26:01
MARIA HINOJOSA: Because..?
01:14:28:22
DR. SANTOS: Well, if we were, I mean, you
know, if I had the resources I’d probably feel a lot
prouder about it.
01:14:35:08
MARIA HINOJOSA: so you guys are lacking in
resources?
01:14:37:10
SOT DR. SANTOS INTV. DR. SANTOS: Um, we have three staff members.
WITH MARIA
We could use another three. A lot of the programs
that are available, like in Hawaii, are not
necessarily available here. For the other
resources, we have, we have ah CBOC,
Community Based Out Clinic. Ah I in my opinion,
I feel it’s small for the amount of veterans we
have.
01:14:55:22
SHOT OF VETERANS
PORTRAITS
MARIA WALKING INTO
VICTOR’S OFFICE
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
IN THE STATES, THERE ARE TWICE AS MANY
V.A. MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS PER
CAPITA THAN IN GUAM.
01:15:03:19
01:15:08:02
01:15:14:16
PORTRAIT SHOT OF
VICTOR DUNGCA /
LOWER THIRD: VICTOR
DUNGCA, VETERAN
SOT INTV. VICTOR W.
MARIA
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
VICTOR DUNCGA, DR. SANTOS’S OFFICE
MANAGER DOUBLES AS A PEER
COUNSELOR TO VETERANS.
VICTOR SERVED AS AN INFANTRYMAN IN
AFGHANISTAN, AND NOW HAS PTSD.
MARIA HINOJOSA: Can you tell me a little bit
about the kinds of things that you did when you
were serving in Afghanistan?
01:15:23:04
VICTOR DUNGCA: Uh, I’m sorry. [Goes to leave]
01:15:30:00
MARIA HINOJOSA: It’s ok, stay, stay, stay, stay.
01:15:36:17
VICTOR DUNGCA: What I’ve gone through.
What I’ve seen, stepping on body parts, the smell
of exploded flesh, those type of things.
01:15:53:08
SOT INTV. VICTOR W.
MARIA
VICTOR DUNGCA: After Afghanistan, um came
back home, I isolated myself for a whole year. I
stayed in my house a whole year. My wife and my
kids, they went everywhere without me.
01:16:10:00
B-ROLL MARIA AND
VICTOR INTV.
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
UNLIKE ROLAND, VICTOR DECIDED TO MAKE
THE 38-HUNDRED-MILE TRIP TO HAWAII FOR
INTENSIVE PTSD TREATMENT, LEAVING HIS
WIFE AND TWO YOUNG CHILDREN FOR TWO
MONTHS.
01:16:21:08
B-ROLL IN VICTOR’S
OFFICE
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
THE TREATMENT HELPED, AND VICTOR IS
NOW ABLE TO GIVE GUIDANCE OTHER
VETERANS IN THEIR RECOVERY.
01:16:26:18
SOT INTV. VICTOR W.
MARIA
VICTOR DUNGCA: With these guys with all the
issues that they have, I guess you could say it
comes to resources.
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01:16:35:02
SOT INTV. VICTOR W.
MARIA
VICTOR DUNGCA: They would need to have
more people who understand, the type of pain that
we feel every single day.
01:16:47:17
MARIA HINOJOSA: You served in Afghanistan in
2010?
01:16:49:17
VICTOR DUNGCA: Yes.
01:16:52:01
MARIA HINOJOSA: And yet you’re in pain every
day?
01:16:55:16
VICTOR DUNGCA: Yes. Yes
01:16:59:12
PROFILE SHOTS
B-ROLL CARMELITA
CANVASSING
NEIGHBORHOOD
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
WITH SO MANY VETERANS LIKE MAGGIE,
ROLAND, AND VICTOR, WHY IS GUAM NOT
GETTING THE SERVICES AND RESOURCES IT
NEEDS?
CARMELITA PORTRAIT
SHOT
THE ANSWER MAY BE IN THE NUMBERS.
GUAMANIAN ADVOCATES AND POLITICIANS
BELIEVE THE V.A. IS USING INACCURATE
GFX6: CENSUS VS.
CENSUS DATA, WHICH RECORDS ROUGHLY
LOCAL ESTIMATES FOR 8,000 VETS ON GUAM, WHEN THE ACTUAL
NUMBER OF VETERANS NUMBER COULD BE DOUBLE THAT.
01:17:24:06
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
CARMELITA CALVO:, ROLAND’S
GODMOTHER, WORKS FOR WEST CARE
PACIFIC ISLANDS, A HEALTH ADVOCACY
GROUP.
LOWER THIRD:
CARMELITA CALVO:
PROGRAM
COORDINATOR, WEST SHE IS GOING DOOR-TO-DOOR TO
CARE PACIFIC ISLANDS ESTABLISH AN ACCURATE COUNT OF HOW
MANY VETERANS LIVE IN GUAM.
B-ROLL CARMELITA
CANVASSING
NEIGHBORHOOD
01:17:35:23
SOT CARMELITA
CANVASSING
CARMELITA CALVO: Hafa adai, Hafa adai. Let's
see, Carmelita Calvo from West Care Pacific
Islands. And your name, sir?
01:17:42:11
HENRY MANGNIOLIA: Henry Mangniolia.
01:17:43:08
CARMELITA CALVO: Henry? Hi Henry, are you
willing to participate in this census?
01:17:46:12
HENRY MANGNIOLIA: Of course.
01:17:47:05
CARMELITA CALVO: Ok.
01:17:48:05
SOT CARMELITA
CANVASSING
01:17:50:05
01:17:50:18
CARMELITA CALVO: Are you a vet, veteran, or?
WOMAN: Yes
B-ROLL CARMELITA
CANVASSING
CARMELITA CALVO: Yeah oh great, can we
come in?
01:17:51:21
01:17:53:00
WOMAN: Yes, Yes.
SOT MARIA AND
CARMELITA WALK AND MARIA HINOJOSA: How important is it for you to
TALK
be trying to get an accurate count of the veterans
on the island?
01:17:57:23
01:18:13:18
CARMELITA CALVO: I think it's very important
because, ah there's conflicting, numbers and I
hear the lawmakers saying that- they need to
know more, how many veterans are there in order
to act on anything.
CARMELITA CALVO: Thank Flores thank you
very much okay. Thank you for participating.
Thank you for the interview and thank you for the
service.
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01:18:14:07
B-ROLL CARMELITA
CANVASSING
B-ROLL OF CRAIG
OSWALD WITH MARIA
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
IF THEIR ESTIMATE OF UP TO 16,000 IS
ACCURATE, THEY BELIEVE THE NUMBERS
WILL MAKE THE CASE FOR CRITICAL
RESOURCES ON THE ISLAND, LIKE A
VETERANS HOSPITAL.
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
BUT THE FACILITY PLANNER FOR THE V.A.
PACIFIC ISLANDS, THINKS THAT’S
UNLIKELY.
01:18:29:21
01:18:30:15
01:18:34:06
01:18:44:22
SOT CRAIG OSWALD
INTV. W. MARIA
LOWER THIRD:
CRAIG OSWALD
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
VETERANS AFFAIR
MARIA AND CRAIG
WALKING INTO
HOSPITAL
B-ROLL OF CRAIG
OSWALD WITH MARIA
MARIA HINOJOSA: Do you wish that there was a
veteran’s hospital on the island of Guam?
CRAIG OSWALD: Uh no, no, um, the, the
number of veterans that we hospitalize, truthfully,
quite small-quite small in numbers.
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
BECAUSE THERE WERE NO OFFICIAL V.A.
REPRESENTATIVES IN GUAM TO ANSWER
OUR QUESTIONS, THE V.A. FLEW IN CRAIG
OSWALD FROM HAWAII TO MEET WITH ME.
HE TOOK ME ON A TOUR OF THE NEW
OUTPATIENT CLINIC, OPENED IN 2011.
01:18:58:02
SOT CRAIG OSWALD
INTV. W. MARIA
CRAIG OSWALD: So what we’re seeing along the
first part of the corridor is some of the physicians’
offices.
01:19:02:11
MARIA HINOJOSA: So psychiatry?
01:19:04:02
CRAIG OSWALD: That’s correct, uh-huh. We’ve
got a board certified, full time psychiatrist, two of
them, here on island …
01:19:09:18
MARIA HINOJOSA: Is that enough?
01:19:10:08
CRAIG OSWALD: … to treat veterans.
01:19:11:08
MARIA HINOJOSA: You feel like having two
psychiatrists on the island to treat veterans, is that
enough? Do you wish there was more?
01:19:18:13
CRAIG OSWALD: I think right now, I think right
now we’re doing well. Because we have some
addition mental health staff that we have added to
the clinic. Namely social workers and nurses.
01:19:28:01
B-ROLL OF VETERANS
IN VET CLINIC
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
I PRESSED HIM ON WHAT I’D BEEN HEARING
FROM VETERANS ABOUT A LACK OF
SERVICES, AND SPECIFICALLY WHAT
ROLAND SAID ABOUT THE TREATMENT HE
NEEDS FOR HIS PTSD.
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01:19:37:10
SOT CRAIG OSWALD
INTV. W. MARIA
MARIA HINOJOSA So everything seems to look
great. I mean great facility but the stories that
we’re hearing from this particular veteran don’t jive
with …
01:19:47:16
CRAIG OSWALD: Right, doesn’t line up with
what one would expect.
01:19:50:11
MARIA HINOJOSA: Yeah, with what you’re
saying, frankly.
01:19:52:15
01:20:01:18
CRAIG OSWALD: It doesn’t line up with what I
would expect either. We do have some
specialized types of PTSD care available in
Honolulu.
01:20:05:10
MARIA HINOJOSA: But he says, “I’m from
Guam, this is my home …
01:20:06:13
CRAIG OSWALD: Right, right.
01:20:12:08
MARIA HINOJOSA … I’m an American citizen, I
deserve to get the treatment that I need here on
Guam.”
01:20:15:00
CRAIG OSWALD: Right, right. And we agree,
and we agree. And, so…
01:20:23:00
MARIA HINOJOSA: So where’s the snafu? Is it
that the federal government in Washington just
doesn’t see these veterans? Guam is so far
away?
CRAIG OSWALD: No, no, I don’t think so. No, I
think Guam is is very well known, you know, to big
VA, to Washington DC. And so our particular
health care system has actually received several
million dollars, several million dollars, that’s being
spent directly on veterans in the Pacific.
01:20:40:15
B-ROLL MARIA INTV.
WITH GOVERNOR
CALVO
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
BUT THE HIGHEST ELECTED OFFICIAL ON
THE ISLAND, GOVERNOR EDDIE CALVO,
SAID THAT THE SENATE CUT MENTAL
HEALTH CARE FUNDS FOR GUAM TWO
YEARS IN A ROW.
01:20:50:01
SOT INTV WITH
GOVERNOR CALVO
GOVERNOR CALVO: And I advised them. I
said, “Folks, these are statistics of all our veteran
population. Some of the statistics on the suicides
that we’ve had. But because we don’t have a vote
in the Senate, you know, that would mean that
they would have to have the heart of Mother
Theresa, uh, because it does not effect their home
state.
01:21:10:00
SOT INTV WITH
GOVERNOR CALVO
MARIA HINOJOSA: Is the United States right now
living up to its commitment to Guam in terms of
what its doing for the veterans?
01:21:18:07
GOVERNOR CALVO: The federal government,
has not done their part, to assist a very patriotic,
uh, group of American citizens fighting in so many
distant lands, in areas that have never tasted
democracy, yet these American citizens of Guam
really have not felt what true democracy is all
about. What do you call a people that cannot vote
for their representatives that make the laws?
What do you call a people that can’t vote in
electoral college to elect a chief executive that will
send us to war. To not offend anyone, I guess I’ll
keep it as a non-self-governing territory. But I
guess in the 19th century sense, you could call it a
colony.
01:22:16:10
B-ROLL ROLAND
HELPING MOM INTO
CAR
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
BACK AT HOME, ROLAND FILLS HIS DAYS BY
CARING FOR HIS MOTHER, WHO HAS LOU
GEHRIG’S DISEASE.
01:22:26:22
B-ROLL ROLAND
HELPING MOM INTO
CAR
ROLAND ADA: I worry about my mom; I try to
take care of her a lot. So that’s kind of what keeps
my mind off of stuff.
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01:22:36:14
SOT ROLAND DRIVING
IN CAR
ROLAND ADA: Recently I actually, uh, had an
episode where I exploded, you know, lost my
temper, had some very bad thoughts about doing
very bad things to people or myself so.
01:22:55:19
B-ROLL ROLAND AT
BAR PLAYING POOL
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
THOUGH ROLAND HAS ONLY BEEN BACK
FOR A YEAR AND A HALF, HE HAS ALREADY
GIVEN UP ON THE V.A. SERVICES OFFERED
ON THE ISLAND.
01:23:03:22
B-ROLL ROLAND
PLAYING POOL,
DRINKING BEER
ROLAND ADA: I’ve already done it and it didn’t
help. It actually made me more frustrated, then I
just put to the side and say “screw this.” I ended
up going back to alcohol, it always just numbed
everything. But then, it’s like soda. You shake it
too much, and you open it and it explodes. That's
kinda how I am. Is you can only shake me so
many times before I explode.
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
VICTOR FEELS LIKE HE’S STABILIZING AND
ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY, AND THINKS
HE MIGHT BE A BRIDGE FOR OTHER
VETERANS IN NEED OF HELP.
SOT INTV
01:23:42:13
B-ROLL OF VICTOR
WITH MARIA
01:23:50:14
SOT MARIA WITH
VICTOR
VICTOR DUNGCA: I wanted to go back to combat
but my doctor says no.
01:23:55:02
MARIA HINOJOSA You still want to go back to
combat?
01:23:57:06
VICTOR DUNGCA: I have a different mission
now.
01:23:59:10
MARIA HINOJOSA: What’s that mission?
01:24:00:08
VICTOR DUNGCA: Helping veterans. That’s my
mission.
01:24:04:07
01:24:05:08
MARIA HINOJOSA And there are a lot of them on
Guam.
VICTOR DUNGCA: Yes. A lot.
01:24:10:13
B-ROLL MAGGIE AT
DINNER AT SUNSET
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
AND DESPITE WHAT SHE’S ENDURED,
MAGGIE’S PATRIOTISM HASN’T DIMMED.
01:24:16:04
MARIA HINOJOSA: If you were asked to re-enlist
and serve today…
01:24:22:06
MAGGIE AGUON: If they were to say pack your
bags I would go again. In a heartbeat.
01:24:28:13
MARIA HINOJOSA: And become a soldier.
01:24:29:15
MAGGIE AGUON: And become a soldier.
01:24:31:14
MARIA HINOJOSA: For your country.
01:24:32:21
MAGGIE AGUON: For my country, for my island.
And I’m not trying to prove anything. It’s called
Pride.
01:24:40:15
01:24:41:09
GROUP SHAKING
HANDS
WOMAN: God Bless You.
MAGGIE AGUON: Happy Liberation Day.
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01:24:49:03
B-ROLL OF CLINIC
01:25:00:05
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
SHORTLY AFTER I LEFT GUAM, THE U.S.
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS
FACED A NATIONWIDE SCANDAL OVER
HEALTH CARE DELAYS, AND ITS
SECRETARY RESIGNED.
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
IN GUAM, THE V.A. CLINIC ADDED ONE MORE
PHYSICIAN TO ITS STAFF, AND HAS APPLIED
FOR FUNDING TO EXPAND ITS FACILITIES.
01:25:08:16
CARMELITA PORTRAIT
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
CARMELITA’S GROUP RAN OUT OF FUNDING
BEFORE FINISHING ITS VETERAN COUNT.
01:25:15:20
ROLAND FAMILY
PICTURE
MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
ROLAND’S MOTHER PASSED AWAY.
01:25:20:05
VETERANS WALKING IN MARIA HINOJOSA VO:
STREET SMILING
AND 600 MEMBERS OF THE GUAM NATIONAL
WEARING UNIFORM
GUARD RETURNED HOME FROM
AFGHANISTAN.
01:25:27:00
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CREDITS:
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PRODUCER
Titi Yu
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PRODUCER
Sue Ding
PRODUCTION
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COORDINATOR
Emily Harrold
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Therese Matananae
01:25:28:16
MUSIC COMPOSED
BY
Wendy Blackstone
MAGGIE AGUON SINGING SINGING: Proud to
be an American, where at least I know I’m free.
And I gladly stand up next to you, and defend
her still today ‘cause there ain’t no doubt I love
this land. “God Bless The USA.”
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01:25:30:05
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01:25:31:21
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01:25:33:10
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01:25:35:00
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EXECUTIVE OFFICE
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01:25:36:13
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CONSULTANT
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VOICEOVER
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TRANSCRIPTION
Last Syllable
Transcription
MUSIC
"God Bless The USA"
Written by Lee
Greenwood
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01:25:46:03
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