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7 Ways Your Veteran Friend Will Prove They Always Have Your Back

By Eric Milzarski — 2021

Most veterans aren’t outgoing or social to the point that they want to be friends with everyone, but if you’re in their close circle, they’ll treat that call like it’s from blood family.

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Saving My Enemy: How Two WWII Soldiers Fought Against Each Other and Later Forged a Friendship That Saved Their Lives

Don Malarkey grew up scrappy and happy in Astoria, Oregon—jumping off roofs, playing pranks, a free-range American. Fritz Engelbert’s German boyhood couldn’t have been more different. Regimented and indoctrinated by the Hitler Youth, he was introspective and a loner.

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Sebastian Junger: Why Veterans Miss War

Civilians don't miss war. But soldiers often do. Journalist Sebastian Junger shares his experience embedded with American soldiers at Restrepo, an outpost in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley that saw heavy combat.

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Theosophical Classic 2007 | Spirituality, Society, and Healing Our Veterans with Ed Tick

A practicing psychotherapist for more than 30 years, Tick specializes in extensive and innovative work with survivors of severe trauma and violence — particularly combat war veterans — sexual and substance abuse victims, those with severe mental and emotional disorders, men's issues and deeply rooted...

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Moral Wounds of War: Ed Tick

"It's our job as civilians to tend to the returning warriors by bringing them into the center of the community," says Dr. Ed Tick, psychotherapist and author of "War and the Soul."

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University of Oregon Today - Edward Tick

This episode features Edward Tick, Soldier's Heart, discuss Dr. Tick's PTSD treatment model based on research of worldwide spirituality, mythology, traditional cultures and the warrior archetype.

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Dr. Edward Tick: "War and the Soul"

February 18, 2009 in Eugene OR. This was the 2008-09 Tzedek Lecture.

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Coming Home in Viet Nam: Poems

Seeking the most powerful healing practices to address the invisible wounds of war, Dr. Ed Tick has led journeys to Vietnam for veterans, survivors, activists, and pilgrims for the past twenty years.

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From War to Wonder: Recovering Your Personal Myth Through Homer’s Odyssey

From War to Wonder, Dennis Slattery’s new book, not only explicates the beauty and power of the Odyssey, Homer’s twenty-seven-hundred-year-old marvel-filled epic, it also offers a marvelous way to interact with it on a daily basis.

Dennis Patrick Slattery, Edward Tick

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Green Beret Shares Combat Stories, Struggles with PTSD and How to Overcome Them. GRAPHIC

We sit down 1 on 1 with former Green Beret Alan Shebaro to hear his inspiring story of survival. Alan opens up and talks about combat, the dark transition into civilian life, what worked in overcoming those struggles and what didn't work.

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The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War

One night in 1967, twenty-six-year-old John Donohue—known as Chick—was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar. The friends gathered there had lost loved ones in Vietnam. Now they watched as antiwar protesters turned on the troops themselves.

John "Chick" Donohue, J.T. Molloy

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