“Aren’t you Ernie Pyle?” the man asked. He was an officer—a medic. He held his helmet at his side. Ernie looked up from his champagne cocktail in the basement bar of the Hôtel Scribe, a storied establishment in central Paris that had been the headquarters for Nazi propagandists—until it was “lib...

I arrived in New York City on Tuesday, July 26, to meet a new friend and participate in the filming of a documentary on vulnerable veterans with Let’s Rethink This founder Jerry Ashton and acclaimed documentarist and photographer Patrick de Warren. While I had been planning a move from Phoenix f...

It is with great personal pleasure and that of Let’s Rethink This to announce our September’s Impact Artist as filmmaker and image maker Patrick de Warren. This French-born expatriate to the U.S. arrived on these shores in 1988 wanting to experience a new adventure and step into the unknown.” Pa...

As part of my participating in the filming of a documentary on vulnerable veterans with Let’s Rethink This founder Jerry Ashton and acclaimed documentarist and filmmaker Patrick de Warren, I arrived in NYC in late July from Phoenix, AZ. For this documentary to work I’ve decided to actually ‘Be th...

What do you do when you exhaust your tools and approaches to what has become an intractable problem, and find yourself at an impasse? If you are the U.S. Dept of Veterans Affairs, which has tried for years to substantially lower the incidence of vet suicides (currently averaging 18 per day)...