Below are the best articles we could find on Fellowship and Community and veteran well being.
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Armed forces long prohibited gay people from service – but that only encouraged their communities and cause.
The Paralympics had not yet been invented. These veterans were sports trailblazers. They were medical miracles as well.
I’ve done a little bit of work with soldiers returning from Iraq and have worked with domestic violence shelter workers on issues of vicarious trauma.
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It’s an uphill battle for returning veterans as they look for support from their church and their community.
No matter where you move after the military, even if you’re returning to where you grew up, it takes time and effort to find your sense of belonging. Your civilian job likely won’t provide that as easily as the military did—or at all.
The colonel said that the feeling experienced by veterans becomes most disturbing when no one understands them, when no one understands who they are, and when they no longer have a voice.
Much of the Alternatives to Violence program’s impact is its emphasis on self-discovery. The participants are never lectured on how they need to change or what they did wrong.
Research continues to show that student veterans are less likely to view themselves as part of a campus community than civilian students.
After months or years in far-off war zones, former soldiers are facing a new kind of isolation at college.
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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