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My name is Harold (Harry) Scott and I am an Iraq vet myself. Working with Ed Tick and Kate at Soldier's Heart has been transformatory for me - immensely helpful. I figured I was "fine" but everything just seemed hard and I just couldn't seem to focus on anything, like I was somehow stuck in time. Understanding why I was feeling like I was and finally realizing there was a path home may well have saved my life. Please help us help veterans and their families - you may also be saving lives and showing that people really do care.
The specific purpose for this fund raising campaign is to help offset the costs for veterans to take part in the 15th annual "healing journey" to Vietnam and to enable us to continue the philanthropic work participants take part in while there. From gestures as simple as buying water buffalos for poor families to building schools, building shelters for the most destitute of children or treatment centers for victoms of Agent Orange, these gestures offer tremendous benefit both to the recipients and perhaps even more-so to the veterans that are offered the chance heal themselves as they pour their hearts and labor into helping the people they may have once known only as faceless enemies. You really can help heal veterans & help children with your kind and much appreciated support.
Please help us continue this vital work. Which of us today does not know someone affected by war? Even veterans of more recent conflicts benefit similarly from taking part in these trips; from genuine acts of kindness, foregiveness and heartfelt works of reconciliation. Please don't let veterans bare the burden of the services they gave alone. Did you know that while roughly 58,000 names of the dead and missing are written on the Vietnam War Memorial that more than twice that many have commited suicide since returning? Sadly, suicides of veterans of the wars of the middle east continue to vastly outpace that of the civilian population. Please help.
Viet Nam is a Buddhist country. Its breathtaking mountain views and lush green foliage are a soothing balm as we visit cities, villages and remote sites. We meet gentle Vietnamese people – teachers, farmers, monks, elders, students, shopkeepers, street children and veterans from all factions of the wars. We attend ceremonies conducted in our honor at Buddhist temples and have audience with head monks. We visit museums and marketplaces, homes and rehabilitation centers and conduct humanitarian projects to rebuild.
Leading these journeys annually since 2000, we have experienced how healing it is for veterans of the Viet Nam war and others to meet and council with former enemies. Our travelers meet with former ARVN, Viet Cong, and NVA soldiers wherever we go and respectfully and personally share our common histories.
We visit places important to our returning veterans and their family members, whether it is a mountain base, a rice paddy “grave”, an indigenous village, or an old battle site. Together we create rituals that enable healing and closure. We honor each other and those who have died. We open to forgiveness, reconciliation and peace. Veterans who take our Journey to Viet Nam are transformed… and so are the rest of us!
Here's a look at the partial itinerary:
Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
Orientation to Viet Nam – history, culture, society, government, religion
War Remnants Museum – study and seminar with Director
Mekong Delta
Home stay with Tam Tien (Viet Cong veteran) and family
Reconciliation meetings between American and Vietnamese veterans
Mekong River boat tour
*10th anniversary celebration of Soldier’s Heart Nursery school/kindergarten
Tay Ninh Province
Visits to Cu Chi Tunnels, Black Lady Mountain, Cambodian border, other war sites, Cao Dai temples, veteran healing ceremonies
Da Nang/ Hoi An
Visit to Marble Mountain, war and Buddhist sacred sites, veteran healing
Stay in Hoi An, historic trading town on the ocean; day trips to war and cultural sites; visit and philanthropy services at Tam Ky elementary school
Additional sites to be determined by needs and interests of veteran and civilian travelers.
TOGETHER WE WILL:
Immerse in Vietnamese culture, history, religion, spirituality and society, gain an understanding and working knowledge of its 4,000 year history, and apply it to personal and social challenges we face in the West.
Study the Vietnam War from both the American and Vietnamese perspectives through sites, museum and care center visits, meetings with veteran and civilian survivors, interviews and research on war’s experience and aftermath with survivors from all factions of the war.
Study and participate in international war healing and reconciliation practices and apply them to issues facing American veterans.
Understand the healing and homecoming needs of Vietnam War veterans, participate in these processes, and learn their applications to all trauma healing.
Compare and contrast the growth and development of Vietnamese college students and young adults with American counterparts.
Study and experience Vietnamese Buddhism and other religious, spiritual and cultural practices and apply them to our personal and societal healing needs.
Help build reconciliation and friendship between our countries.
Participate in philanthropic projects that help rebuild Viet Nam while helping heal and transform American participants in the war and everyone else taking part.
Please help us with your secure, tax-deductable donation today - lives may well depend on whatever support you can offer.
For more information about the totality of Soldier's Heart work and services, please visit our website at www.soldiersheart.net.
Contact me or Soldier's Heart for more information, to inquire about ongoing sponsorship or to help organize an event near you.
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War touches us all-leaving visible and invisible wounds on the warriors who fight, disrupting their families and communities, and leaving lasting imprints on our national psyche. In spite of billions spent on psychological care and reintegration programs, we face an epidemic of combat-related conditions such as PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). With Warrior's Return, Dr. Edward Tick presents a powerful case for changing the way we welcome our veterans back from service-a vision and a path for transforming the wounds of war into sources of wisdom, honor, and growth. After more than 35 years of working with veterans, Dr. Tick has learned that our conventional ways of addressing the trauma and woundings of war fall far short, usually focusing only on symptoms and temporary relief. Drawing on lessons from cross-cultural wisdom, mythical archetypes, and proven methods from psychology, he offers this book as a valuable resource to help families, caregivers, and returning veterans unde
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Get Ed Tick's ground-breaking book signed and dedicated by the author. War and PTSD are on the public's mind as news stories regularly describe insurgency attacks in Iraq and paint grim portraits of the lives of returning soldiers afflicted with PTSD. These vets have recurrent nightmares and problems with intimacy, can't sustain jobs or relationships, and won't leave home, imagining "the enemy" is everywhere. Dr. Edward Tick has spent decades developing healing techniques so effective that clinicians, clergy, spiritual leaders, and veterans' organizations all over the country are studying them. This book shows that healing depends on our understanding of PTSD not as a mere stress disorder, but as a disorder of identity itself. In the terror of war, the very soul can flee, sometimes for life. Tick's methods draw on compelling case studies and ancient warrior traditions worldwide to restore the soul so that the veteran can truly come home to community, family, and self.
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War touches us all-leaving visible and invisible wounds on the warriors who fight, disrupting their families and communities, and leaving lasting imprints on our national psyche. In spite of billions spent on psychological care and reintegration programs, we face an epidemic of combat-related conditions such as PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder). With Warrior's Return, Dr. Edward Tick presents a powerful case for changing the way we welcome our veterans back from service-a vision and a path for transforming the wounds of war into sources of wisdom, honor, and growth. After more than 35 years of working with veterans, Dr. Tick has learned that our conventional ways of addressing the trauma and woundings of war fall far short, usually focusing only on symptoms and temporary relief. Drawing on lessons from cross-cultural wisdom, mythical archetypes, and proven methods from psychology, he offers this book as a valuable resource to help families, caregivers, and returning veterans unde
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Get Ed Tick's ground-breaking book signed and dedicated by the author. War and PTSD are on the public's mind as news stories regularly describe insurgency attacks in Iraq and paint grim portraits of the lives of returning soldiers afflicted with PTSD. These vets have recurrent nightmares and problems with intimacy, can't sustain jobs or relationships, and won't leave home, imagining "the enemy" is everywhere. Dr. Edward Tick has spent decades developing healing techniques so effective that clinicians, clergy, spiritual leaders, and veterans' organizations all over the country are studying them. This book shows that healing depends on our understanding of PTSD not as a mere stress disorder, but as a disorder of identity itself. In the terror of war, the very soul can flee, sometimes for life. Tick's methods draw on compelling case studies and ancient warrior traditions worldwide to restore the soul so that the veteran can truly come home to community, family, and self.
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