EP 45: Fishing & Veterans - How Reeling Freedom Is Helping Vets Through Fishing
Salt Strong Fishing
Joe Simonds
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Gene Hammond from Reeling Freedom talks about every that veterans are struggling with here in America along with the impacts fishing is having on them (especially veterans suffering from PTSD). This is one of the most hard-hitting episodes yet and truly eye-opening to just how hard it can be for a soldier to come home after being gone fro 6-18 months.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Fish Strong Podcast! Disrupting Fishing Entertainment as you know it, prepare |
| 0:10.9 | to laugh, prepare to get to know fishing legends in a whole new and unfiltered way and |
| 0:16.3 | on occasion. |
| 0:17.3 | You might even learn a thing or two about fishing. |
| 0:19.7 | Here are your hosts, Joe and Luke Simons. |
| 0:23.4 | Hello, Fish Strong, Salt Strong Nation, Joe Simons, back again another awesome episode. |
| 0:30.8 | This one is going to be about America, about veterans, about fishing, three things that |
| 0:37.2 | we love talking about and we have one of our fellow insider fishing club members, Gene |
| 0:43.4 | Hammond on. |
| 0:44.4 | He is part of this group called Reeling Freedom that we've been following for a while |
| 0:50.0 | and just really doing some awesome things and we're going to talk about that, what they're |
| 0:54.6 | doing in the communities and helping vats talk about just some of the big problems that |
| 1:00.3 | most of us take for granted out there that we have all these people fighting for our |
| 1:06.3 | rights and for our freedom and just how bad it is for many of them when they do come home. |
| 1:12.5 | You think it would be a joyous celebration but many of them are, I mean, they're worn out |
| 1:16.3 | and fatigued. |
| 1:17.3 | I mean, they're health is bad, the relationships are bad. |
| 1:20.3 | I mean, Gene told me offline, I mean, there's many people watching their kids grow up through |
| 1:24.3 | pictures and we're going to talk all about that and it's going to be a hard-hitting episode. |
| 1:29.1 | So, Gene, thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:32.7 | Well, thank you so much for having me, Joe Simons, I really appreciate it and we certainly |
| 1:37.8 | appreciate your support and what you've done for me over the years and Reeling Freedom |
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