Local veterans win Emmy for documentary

_{By Joshua Dixon
Staff Writer
Posted Dec. 28, 2013 @ 12:01 am}

Generally when you think of people winning Emmy awards, you think of glamorous TV stars on red carpets.

You don’t immediately think of veterans sitting in a meeting room at the Redwood County government center on Tuesday mornings.

Yet for nearly 20 local veterans, it happened on Nov. 9 when the producers of the documentary Battlefield on the Homefront were presented with an Emmy on Oct. 9.

For local veterans, it began in the spring of 2010 when Redwood County Veterans Services Officer (VSO)  Marty Caraway was contacted by a Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) producer.

Since 2006, Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) has had an ongoing series examining how veterans have been affected by their service to the U.S., and the TPT staff had learned about Redwood County’s Tuesday morning veterans meetings.

The purpose of the meetings: let veterans of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam get together in a safe, confidential setting to talk about their experiences in the wars and afterward.

The meetings are informal; whichever veterans show up that week are welcome.

“It’s a program started by (previous VSO) Harold Read, and has been really popular,” said Caraway.

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