Late one evening my cell phone rang. It was a brother who never called, we always kept in contact via texts or met to practice our long-range Continue Reading
Veterans
20 Years of Living with War and Lost Innocence
By Andrew P. Clifford The first casualty of war is innocence. You hear this phrase a lot when it comes to experiencing war. This saying is actually Continue Reading
Combat Vets: On Carrying Violence Over into Civilian Life
by Britta Reque-Dragicevic This first appeared in Britta's blog, "Life After War" on March 4, 2016, and is republished with the author's Continue Reading
Is the Private Sector Where We Put Our Passion Out to Pasture?
by Thomas Booth This question has haunted me as of late. Nine years after my first transition from Active Duty, my passion is what most often makes Continue Reading
They Do Not Want to Understand the Wars We Fight in Their Name
The questions are almost always delivered by the young without guilt. They ask them in classrooms, living rooms, car rides, anywhere and everywhere it Continue Reading
Tobacco Musings in Puerto Vallarta
2015 03 29 Sunday I stand on the fantail and stare out at the buildings across the bay from the cutter. We’re moored in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Continue Reading
Reply to Hannah
by Clay D You ask to keep the faith; I ask how could we? We are thrown to the wolves because we are dad, a product of toxic masculinity of the 90s Continue Reading
Battling PTS: Choose Not to be a Statistic
A couple of years ago I was diagnosed with PTSD, I knew something in my head wasn't right, but I refused to do anything about it. Big tough Army guy, Continue Reading
Fall 2023 Veterans on the Camino Pilgrimage
by Seth Allard, USMC Veteran Veterans on the Camino (VOC) is taking applications for the 2023 annual Camino de Santiago Pilgrimage in Spain. VOC is Continue Reading
Your War is Not My War | It’s All of Ours
by Britta Reque-Dragicevic This first appeared in Britta's blog, "Life After War" on June 8, 2013, and is republished with the author's Continue Reading
Fear of My Own Words
As a child, I wrote them out for reasons I cannot explain. The words appeared on the paper as some sort of secret truth or feeling I, myself, could Continue Reading
Friendly Fire
by Diana Nickell, wife of Vietnam combat veteran, Dennis Nickell Do you really think Anyone cares That the fire that burns… is Continue Reading
