Nedderland, Colorado – During the height of the Vietnam war, the US Marine Outpost Con Thein was like a death sentence.
“It seemed like time just for everyone,” retired Marine CPL. Scott Harrison told CBS News.
Harrison, then only 19 years old, says that he got through those dark days, thanks to a small part, his sister sent him to a music box.
During the break in the fight, he used to hold it tightly to his ear.
“And I will close my eyes, and I would think of a carousel in a hill meadow,” said Harrison. “… an image is completely opposite where people are trying to kill each other.”
Harrison says that the delicate tampering of a simple time reduced her adrenaline and checked her cruelty. Eventually, he was injured, evacuated and re -involved in civil life.
Harrison left Vietnam in 1968, but war never left him. He fought with a post-tractic stress disorder with alcohol, and at a point, tried to be alone on a boat on the sea, but did not work. And that is when he was circling the Hindola vision that he was long ago.
“I thought that if I could really start to make that vision come true, it would put me on a single nail and please me,” said Harrison.
Therefore, Harrison bought a broken carousel and brought it to Naderland, Colorado in 1986. For the next 26 years, he engraved brand-new animals for this.
In a mountain valley in Naderland in 2010, a Harrison was imagined – like a carousel, like you ever saw, Hindola was opened to the public for the public.
Harrison helped establish the carousel of happiness, a non -profit organization whose mission is simply spreading happiness. It has pleased more than a million people in the last 15 years. It has also changed the life of Harrison deeply.
“Absolutely, everyday, just to go to that carousel and everyone to see such a good time, it is a good medicine for me,” said Harrison. “Because I started trying to treat myself, and then it turned into just something that I could do for others.”
