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Title: Boots Serve as Memory of What Soldier Can’t Express In Words
Post by: rangerrebew on April 18, 2017, 09:37:25 am
Boots Serve as Memory of What Soldier Can’t Express In Words

By Terri Moon Cronk DoD News, Defense Media Activity
 

WASHINGTON, April 13, 2017 — The blood-spattered, worn combat boots with a medical syringe lying alongside them portray a healing image for retired Army Sgt. Timothy “Mike” Goodrich.
 
Goodrich, who was introduced to healing arts therapy last year at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, has found his way through art to express feelings of war that he cannot put into words because of post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.

https://www.defense.gov/News/Article/Article/1151540/boots-serve-as-memory-of-what-soldier-cant-express-in-words/