He’d never written before, but has racked up several fi rst- and second- place awards. But it’s not why he writes. His son had encouraged him to put down his life story, but his stories are not related to the injury he sustained in the service more than 34 years ago. “That was ancient stuff,” he said, with too many details too hard to remember. “Rather than that, I reached out to everybody that was a veteran that really needed to hear the fact that ‘I’m here and let’s talk,’” he said. Every Thursday at the Raymond G. Murphy
VAMC in Albuquerque, 18 veterans draw their chairs up to tables in the rec. hall. Phyllis Bibeau, the HVWP leader there, refuses to call it a “class.” “They let their hair down and they talk...We talk about
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“Blood comes out where holes go in. The mind crawls back where life begins.”
Charles Kesler VAMC, Dallas, Texas
anything and everything. We do a lot of talking to get the edge off,” she said.
Bibeau started out working with WWI veterans and has worked with soldiers from all confl icts coping with all types of trauma. Some are homeless. One is a young woman veteran dealing with
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