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Veteran Well-Being & friendship

Below are the best resources we could find on Veteran Well-Being and friendship.

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Sometimes the Best Medicine for a Veteran Is the Company of Another Veteran

Veterans are molded by military culture—a unique set of values, traditions, language and humor, with unique subcultures. It has enough consistency across different branches, ranks and time periods to make most veterans feel a kinship.

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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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Four-Legged Friends Help a Veteran Keep Serving

"A dog or other animal in a veteran’s life is a great addition to the healing process."

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How to Create Community After Your Military Service Is Over

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.

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Iwo Jima—Once Enemies, Now Friends

World War II veterans visited Iwo Jima for the 70th anniversary of one most iconic battles of World War II, March 21, 2015. Video by Cpl. Isaac Ibarra

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Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War

Helen Thorpe follows the lives of three women over twelve years on their paths to the military, overseas to combat, and back home . . . and then overseas again for two of them.

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Vetville

More than two million American veterans have served in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. Many came home wounded, most came back changed, thousands have committed suicide. Who is trying to help them? At a small farm in Tennessee, Marines are taking care of one another.

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Three Vietnam War Veterans Reunite after Believing One of Them Died 53 Years Ago

53 years after thinking one of their comrades died in Vietnam, three veterans reunited in a surprise birthday party in Caldwell. The moment, five decades in the making, was something Ivis Sloane and Jim Mattis never thought would happen.

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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.

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A Veteran’s Best Friend

Warrior Canine Connection’s service-dog-training program helps veterans cope with post-deployment challenges.

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