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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nABC News sends us their latest in their “Stand Up For Heroes<\/a>” series about actor Gregory Peck’s son Stephen who was drafted in 1968 and served in Vietnam;<\/p>\n Peck\u2019s time at war had a huge impact on his life. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to let it affect me but the combat experience is something that stays with you and those images and the things we experienced, the camaraderie between soldiers you serve with is also something that stays with you,\u201d says Peck. When he came back, he pursued what he thought would be his long-time career. He enrolled in a graduate school cinema program in 1972 and went on to become a documentary filmmaker.<\/p>\n His life changed in 1990 when Peck made a film about a group of homeless veterans living on the beach in Venice, Calif. \u201cI didn\u2019t tell a lot of people I served in Vietnam because in those years you didn\u2019t do that. Around that time those feelings about the war and Vietnam came back to me and I began to think about my experience and talking with other veterans, and produced a film about the combat experience.\u201d After that, Peck knew he had to do something to help other fellow veterans and he switched careers to do so. \u201cI was making documentary films so I was an observer on the problem but I wasn\u2019t an active participant in solving the problem,\u201d says Peck. So he went to school and earned a degree in social work from the University of Southern California with the goal of devoting himself to helping veterans.<\/p>\n Peck is now the CEO of U.S. Vets<\/a>, a nonprofit organization serving over 3,000 homeless and at-risk veterans. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n