As a history-loving little boy, Gettysburg History President and CEO Andrew Dalton couldn’t have imagined it. “There I was sitting in a room with Ken Burns, Martin Sheen, and Susan Eisenhower,” says Dalton. Burns is the world-renowned filmmaker whose works include the groundbreaking documentary The Civil War. Sheen is an actor whose roles have included
Gettysburg resident Mike Chandler has lived with military PTSD all of his life. First, as a little boy, he saw his father struggle with it. Now, as an adult with children of his own, he himself is struggling with it. In an effort to help others better understand the impact of PTSD on those who
President Dwight D. Eisenhower wasn’t much interested in seeing himself on the screen in films about World War II. After all, he had been there, done that. And in the process, as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe, he had preserved democracy. “I remember being at the farm and my brother David
Rafael Mejia was just four years old when he and his infant sister were kidnapped. “A guy had asked my mom to dance at a party, and she told him no,” says Mejia. So, the disgruntled would-be dance partner took Rafael and his sister, traumatizing the little boy. “When my mother found me, I was
Perhaps no one was more surprised than Martin Sheen when he got the call to play General Robert E. Lee for the movie Gettysburg. “I thought I’d be the last guy,” says Sheen, chuckling. “And I’ve always suspected and I’m going to have to ask Ron Maxwell (Gettysburg director) to be straight with me someday