Coming Home is a documentary film about a soldier adjusting to life after a near fatal accident in Afghanistan. It will include interviews with the soldier in question, his family and friends. We will also interview the Department of Veterans Affairs, his physical therapist, and a prosthetist among many others. Footage of his purple heart ceremony and physical therapy sessions will also be included.

The purpose of this film is to highlight the hardships that one must endure when faced with an event of this magnitude, as well as highlight the strength of the individual and of the community. It is the filmmakers hope that this film will serve as inspiration to others who have been wounded in battle as well.

Jesses Story:
On the nineteenth of July, 2009 Staff Sergeant Jesse Cottle and his team of explosive ordnance disposal technicians were on their way to investigate an enemy IED (improvised explosive device) when the Staff Sergeant stepped on an anti-personal mine. The blast cost him his left leg from just above the knee and his right leg just below. He had a collapsed lung and perforated ear drums. Despite this he began putting on his own tourniquet before his team leader ran to his side and applied one to Cottles left leg, and then finished putting the tourniquet on his right. He remained conscious the entire time, cheering his team on as they rushed him to a medical evacuation helicopter, on which he finally lost consciousness. He awoke the next day in the hospital, where doctors would have to amputate his right knee as well.