Jacob Panton reached to be dead in three minutes at the field hospital in Camp Bastion, before the doctors got him back to the world.
It was not, however, a world where he could live as he was accustomed to.
It was made clear in the documentary ‘The dead soldier’, which was broadcast on TV2 on Thursday evening.
Here told Jacob Panton about the time in January 2012, where he was shot five times, died and returned to life as a changed man. And one must say, that his life has taken a turn of the sharp and terribly hard, since the time when he lived as kampvognsfører on the front lines in Afghanistan.
Now he lives with pain every single day, and he must navigate a world that is far from the well-known in the Defense.
– today I have put large parts of my time lobbying for other veterans. This is why I tell my story: to put focus on the lack of help for veterans and their families, says Jacob Panton to Ekstra Bladet.
however, It has not been the clean gingerbread man is for Jacob to tell the story of how he was shot, was dead, and now live with pain and rehabilitation daily.
Jacob was dead in three minutes
Jacob Panton had been shot in the shoulder, just three weeks before the last trip in January 2012.
Within the team in the tank drove off, warned Jacob Panton his boss that he had a bad feeling about to take off. However, they were sent off anyway.
Suddenly sounded a snap, which indicated that something about the tape on the tank, was about to go in pieces. Jacob Panton jumped out to hammer it in place and see two people approximately 250 metres away.
a Few moments after Jacob was hit by fragments and four shots – in addition to the one he had in the shoulder in advance.
Jacob manages after much effort to get back into the tank. He is close to bleeding to death when he lands on the field hospital. Here he gets cardiac arrest and death in three minutes.
Jacob Panton returned to Denmark and was hospitalized for a year. Rehabilitation has led him to be able to go again, but daily, he lives with the pain. Even today, seven years later.
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Therefore, as he and his family also not a documentary in the evening, when it was aired on TV2.
– I’ve seen it, and can’t see it again, said Jacob Panton, en Ekstra Bladet spoke with him earlier in the week.
– It is too hard. It is really well made, and I have had a good cooperation with Jesper Ærø, who have made it, but I can’t see it again, he says.
Special rekonstruktionerne – that is, scenes where the actors among other things, the skudopgøret in Afghanistan – has been hard to see for the veteran.
– wow, it was hard. I do not have ptsd, but I could almost not keep it out. It was terrible, and it felt as if I could not get the air. But I have to believe that my story can do the benefit of other veterans and give attention to our association of veterans, says Jacob Panton.
In the whole, the documentary claimed the lives of a lot of energy in the whole family.
– It has awakened some old feelings, and in fact it is hard at the moment. So we do our best to talk about that it must be for the others ‘ sake, and awareness about veterans, that we do, says Jacob.
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Work with the association for the veterans, Veteranskytter, has got Jacob Panton to realize that it is difficult to fight against bureaucracy.
I have been fighting against systems which treat me as if I’m a criminal. I have been waiting for several years on the devices, and it is simply devastating, because my legs grow is not healthy to go out again.
– I have been so burned and angry that the politicians do not know how it is to live with in reality. So now I have created the here sustainable association, which is independent, says Jacob Panton.
in Addition, he has got the eyes up for the policy, and in 2017 he was elected to the city council in Stevns Municipality, on the Left. He also makes up for the forthcoming general election in the same circuit.
– Is it not, then, pretty good timing that the documentary will now be displayed – up to a general election?
– Yes, it is fortunate for me that it will be sent now. But it was not intended, for it should only take a half a year to record the documentary. Instead, it has taken two years, because many things have taken longer than we had anticipated.
– Actually I would not take my past as a soldier with me into politics. I don’t know if it is something positive that I have this background. One thing is the fact that the film affects me, but it may also be that there is someone who does not like it, says Jacob Panton.
the Documentary was broadcasted in tv on Thursday night, but it has been on TV2 Play since Saturday.
– And I have already received between 300 and 400 emails. Luckily, they have been sweet, and I am hugely touched by all the attention. I hope the story does something good for the veterans. For it is not easy for me to tell, says Jacob Panton.
‘The dead soldier’ can still be seen on the TV2 Play.
