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of the treatment and education we received from the regulars we served under. Discussing our service was a regular occurrence, and those of us who served in the infantry lorded [it] over the others. And some of us even liked it enough to voluntarily return. Ours was one form of national service, and there are many others. — CW4 F.T. Naughton, USA (Ret) Life Member via email

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Music Hath Charms … As a board-certified music therapist [MT-BC], I was disappointed with [“Defusing PTS,” September 2015] for omitting music therapy. … Our modern Western profession actually started in hospitals serving soldiers re- turning from World War I and World War II. Musicians who were asked to provide music realized they were doing more than entertaining. … Uni- versity programs were started in 1950 for training musicians to use music therapeutically, and research was begun to show that there are actually physical, mental, and emotional ben- efits to music applied appropriately. Now, with new imaging tech-

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niques, we can see the effects of music throughout the brain. There are many musicians using music interventions that are benefiting our soldiers, but more importantly, there are board-certified music therapists trained in neurologic music therapy working in physi- cal rehabilitation as well as PTSD. There are many VA hospitals that offer music therapy services to com- plement their other treatments. — Kathleen S. Brown, MT-BC Life Member spouse Temple, Texas

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