Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/therapeutic-riding-program-aims-to-help-soldiers-heal Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript A program at Northern Virginia's Fort Myer helps injured soldiers with their recovery by having them ride horses usually used in the formal funeral processions in Arlington National Cemetery. Kwame Holman reports. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. GWEN IFILL: Next, a story about soldiers helping soldiers.Thirty thousand servicemen and women have been wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many are left with life-altering injuries. Kwame Holman has our report on two Afghanistan war vets and their ride to recovery. KWAME HOLMAN: Bright sun shines at Fort Myer military base outside Washington, D.C., as a riding class moves through campus. But a closer look reveals this is no ordinary ride: It's physical therapy on horseback.Two of the riders are double amputees, wounded in combat in Afghanistan.1ST LT. BRIAN BRENNAN, U.S. Army: It was a year ago, May 7, 2008, and it was in Afghanistan. Hit an IED that split my Humvee in half, killed three guys, and me and my gunner were the only two to survive. KWAME HOLMAN: First Lieutenant Brian Brennan is from New Jersey. Staff Sergeant Michael Downing, from Massachusetts, lost both of his legs in an IED attack in September.Both are in the continuing care of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, rebuilding their bodies with physical therapy. But today their P.T. has a different tack. STAFF SGT. MICHAEL DOWNING, U.S. Army: It's a nice change of pace. Instead of doing regular P.T., same thing every day, it's a different kind of workout. It's nice to get outside.