J.R. LABBE
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram
War Horse, director Steven Spielberg's movie adaptation of a children's book, is a fictional story about an unbreakable bond between a young military man and his horse. But true stories about horses and warriors are being written right here in North Texas, and lives are changing through the therapeutic benefits of the relationship that can develop between the two.
Just ask Robert MacTamhais, a 37-year-old Hurst resident who traveled in convoys from December 2008 to August 2009 from Kuwait to Baghdad to the Iranian border as a combat medic with the Army's 167th Medical Detachment.
"I got lucky," MacTamhais said. "I didn't see all that much, but I saw enough."
MacTamhais, who served in the military for more than 17 years, was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder, which manifests as severe anxiety attacks.
"The fire alarm at work went off for no reason one day," he said Monday. "A half hour later I had such an anxiety attack I had to go home."
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