Veteran's Heart Georgia Blog

“The experience of being in war alters a person’s way of being in the world. The specific lived story that takes place within each individual [and in each family] then becomes both the tale of trauma and the source of healing.” -Michael Meade

Please join Veterans Heart Georgia, and others everywhere in telling your stories of growing up in a family during a war or in a family in which a member was a war veteran. Narrative, or story-telling, is age-old and has been known to provide and nurture healing down through the ages. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t really remember my dad before the war. My first memory of him was at the grave of my great aunt. He was really close to her. I must have been 4 years old. I remember him kneeling at her grave crying, and when I stepped on her grave that’s when I saw the monster. After Vietnam, he was stationed in Japan, and we moved there to be with him. These are my first memories of him. He was my hero. He was a monster. He was drunk a lot of the time. After about nine months, my mom had had enough, and moved us back to Kentucky. Read the rest of this entry »