Dream of a Carousel Helped A Marine Survive Vietnam, Then He Built One to Survive PTSD, Delighting Millions
Dream of a Carousel Helped A Marine Survive Vietnam, Then He Built One to Survive PTSD, Delighting Millions
Dream of a Carousel Helped A Marine Survive Vietnam, Then He Built One to Survive PTSD, Delighting Millions Men of the 9th Marines take cover at Con Thien, public domain In the trenches of Con Thien, Vietnam, a Marine Corps corporal used to quietly sit and dream about a carousel in a mountain meadow. His logic was simple: find the complete opposite of his surroundings of death, screaming hot shrapnel, and chaos. Sitting there holding a music box given to him by his sister as a gift, the war—for a sweet, fleeting moment—fell away. Fast forward almost forty years, and the Carousel of Happiness nonprofit allows thousands of Coloradoans and out-of-state visitors to experience their own little escape on board the ride’s animals that Cpl. Scott Harrison (Ret.) hand-carved in a picturesque valley in Nederland, Colorado. “I started out just trying to treat myself, but then it just changed into something I could do for others,” Harrison told CBS News’ On the Road with Steve Hartman. A post at Con Th…