Thirty days with my father

Christal Presley describes the thirty days she spent reconnecting and having difficult conversations with her Vietnam veteran father who has severe post-traumatic stress disorder. At the age of eighteen he was drafted into the army. Unlike many soldiers of the Vietnam War, he returned home but he was never the same man again. Christal learned to avoid doing anything to annoy him and at the age of eighteen she moved out. She barely spoke to her father for the next thirteen years. In 2009 she came up with the idea of the Thirty-Day Project, a month's worth of conversations with a man she hardly knew, but wanted to.