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Insight to Insight
War veterans tend to gain an impressive level of insight at a very young age. When I first came home, I never talked about the war. As I went around campus, my professors and fellow students were confused after speaking with me. Since I dont scream the persona of a soldier with a short haircut and a rigid walk, I...
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How We Can Support Returning Soldiers
This conversation was excerpted from John Henry Parker's interview for the film Beyond Wartime.
Tell us about your son and his service in Afghanistan?
My son is a sergeant in the 10th mountain division, and he’d been in Afghanistan for his second time over. And I hadn’t heard from him very much at all, and one day he called me from...
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Broken Hearts: Thawing the Holy in Us
Sermon at Saint Mark’s
The Very Reverend Robert V. Taylor The Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, July 30, 2006 2 Kings 2:1-15; Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-16 & Mark 6:45-52
On Thursday I was on the website of Voices in Wartime reflecting on a passage by Parker Palmer about broken hearts.ii He suggests two ways to picture a broken heart. The first is...
Featured Stories
A son returns from war
Nov. 30, 2006
Ft. Wainwright, Alaska
I stood on a folding chair, holding a sign over my head, looking for Michael as 300 or so soldiers of the 1-17 INF, 172nd Stryker Brigade marched in a relatively rigid formation across the large hangar. Many of them couldn’t help but turn their heads to the crowd and look for their wives and children,...