Tiger football games help veterans ‘just trust the moments’
Veterans attend a Memphis Tigers football game on military appreciation night at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium. (Courtesy Patrick Dolly)
Immersing himself back into society after 13 years in the Army wasn’t easy for 42-year-old Christopher Shankle.
Shankle, whose time in the service includes a deployment to Iraq, medically retired because of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) about five months ago.
Shankle shied away from crowds and hardly ever left the house.
“I isolated a lot,” he said.
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Frank Bonner II
Frank Bonner II covers the Memphis Tigers. He is a top-10 APSE winner who covered Oklahoma State for the Tulsa World before joining The Daily Memphian in 2021. Bonner is a native of Indiana, where he started his career covering high school sports.
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