Queen Latifah And John Mayer Address Visible And Invisible War Injuries

By Alicia Sparks

Attention Parents:

If you have a child of the Sesame Street-viewing age, mark your calendars for Wednesday, April 1, 2009.

Thanks to Sesame Workshop, Sesame Street, David Letterman’s production company Worldwide Pants Incorporated, and Lookalike Productions, Queen Latifah, John Mayer, and Elmo will appear in a half-hour, primetime special Coming Home: Military Families Cope With Change.

The program is dedicated to helping military families and their young children understand and cope with the changes that often accompany deployments - specifically the visible and invisible injuries soldiers bring home.

From SesameWorkshp.org:

This half-hour HD special tells stories of service members who return home with injuries, visible and invisible, and explores the heroic struggles their families face in discovering a new way of finding a “new normal.” It salutes the extraordinary courage and strength of these military families and offers the general public a powerful glimpse into what they often must endure. The special will air on PBS on April 1, 2009 at 8PM (check local listings) in conjunction with April as the “Month of the Military Child.”

I’d also recommend this to nonmilitary families with children; regardless of their parents’ views on what we’re doing over there, these children can learn a valuable lesson about the physical and mental war wounds so many of our soldiers bring home, as well as what their peers - the children of military families - must cope with.

I applaud Queen Latifah and John Mayer for getting involved in such a good cause (not Elmo, though - he’s just doing his job), as well as David Letterman and Worldwide Pants Incorporated.

While you wait, you can catch a sneak peek of the show and also head over to Parasites of the Mind and find out how John Mayer song helped fellow blogger Michele Rosenthal heal from her own invisible injuries.

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