JVIP Proposal

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FEBRUARY 24 2012

THE JOIE DE VIVRE INDEPENDENCE PROJECTA PROPOSAL

JVIPPO Box 665, Carolina Beach, NC 28428 Phone: 336.981.6828 | [email protected] | http://dosomething-jvip.blogspot.com

February 24 2012

EXECUTIVE SUMMARYThe Joie de Vivre Independence Project is working to establish self-sustaining colonies of veterans interested in finding workable ways to live. What are JVIP's objectives? reduce suicides among post-military individuals by giving opportunities to come to terms with life reduce homelessness among post-military individuals by giving homes reduce unemployment among post-military individuals by teaching ways to sustain oneself reduce substance abuse among post-military individuals by giving support and encouragement not to self-medicate reduce debt among post-military individuals by giving a way to unplug from the credit spiral reduce PTS among post-military individuals by giving a safe, supportive, stable environment among peers and many chances to work out the imprint of trauma reduce alienation and isolation among the military by giving true community a chance to be developed reclaim dignity recycle uncontaminated post-military land test and pioneer methods of green building, permaculture, and sustainability open doors to nonconfrontational, nonjudgmental, mutually beneficial dialog and service between civilians and post-military individuals How will JVIP accomplish this? In JVIP, a rotating roster of green building experts, artisans, and other teachers will help a core group of veterans build the first colony. In five years, JVIP will have a working model from which to launch more colonies.THE JOIE DE VIVRE INDEPENDENCE PROJECT

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NEED STATEMENT "THROW ME A LIFESAVER, THROW ME A LIFE WORTH LIVING." JOHN WYLIE NEEDHAM, 26 More than one million veterans are unemployed and are experiencing some of the highest unemployment rates in the country, 12.1 percent on average throughout last year. Nearly 200,000 are homeless on any given night. Nearly 400,000 experience homelessness over the course of a year. Three thousand divorced in 2010. Their suicide hotline gets more than 14,000 calls per month; that is more than 450 a day. More have died by their own hand than through contact with any enemy. They account for one of every five suicides in this nation. Since 2009, more than 2,200 have died within two years of leaving the service. About half of these had been undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress or other combat-induced mental disorders at the time. Every day, another 18 kill themselves. A Fall 2011 report states that among this population we are losing the battle against suicide. Every 80 minutes, a veteran commits suicide.

A September VA survey shows that 70 percent of its doctors, nurses, and social workers say they feel the system lacks the space and staff to provide adequate mentalhealth care. Veteran charged with homeless murders: Hint of larger problem for US military?

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GOALS AND OBJECTIVES1. Work with reality. JVIP accepts there is no panaceanot even JVIP. But it will serve as a constant outspoken witness to the tragedy of suicides among those in the armed forces, a place for those in grief to find solace, and a choice for those who seek other ways to live. JVIP is not about to say to a vet, By 0700 on March 24, 2013, you will be commuting to a permanent job with a stable employer and you will be looking for a house to buy. If the individual is not limited in these prospects due to skillsets and mental health issues, the environment is certainly challenged in providing opportunities. The path to economic recovery has been slow, uncertain, and partial. No matter how skilled a veteran may be, experience does not create jobs; employers do. If there are not enough jobs, even skilled workers remain unemployed. JVIP builds a workaround to the employment crisis: create a population that works for itself. What JVIP grows and raises, JVIP eats or sells. What JVIP creates and builds, JVIP uses or sells. JVIP teaches men and women to rely on themselves and each other for their sustenance and well-being. instead of becoming essentially wards of the State too often falling prey to learned disability. JVIP makes space for people to realistically solve their own problems together. 2. End isolation. Disability, a pension, unemployment, the GI Bill, and small business loans are set up to help individuals survive. They are like life jackets in cold water survival training. They are not enough. People survive best not individually but in a huddle. In general, Americans dont huddle well, but the military is trained to huddle to promote the chances of survival. JVIP leverages what vets are already trained to do and in fact need to do in order to survive. 3. Take stock in what vets have. Vets not only have formal training in basic survival skills, physical fitness, first aid, buddy care, time management, mental and physical endurance, equipment maintenance, teamwork, and problem solving, but they are also skilled in heavy equipment operation, mechanics, strategizing, and learning a terrain. Socially, vets are formally trained in seeing past individual wants to the needs of the whole. One definition of vets is people who know how things SHOULD be organized because their lives have depended on it. Put a vet to a purpose and you have an achievement. JVIP stands on this and on the belief that no one on earth is better prepared to create an intensive, self-sustaining community than veterans. 4. Point vets toward a true purpose. There are those vets who are questioning why they are still breathing and whats next for them. Why are they here, back home? Why them? Why not this or that buddy, who did not make it home? What significance is their life? Have they lived their highest and lowest moments already and the rest of their life is just a slow, pointless deterioration? Another definition of veterans might be people who have walked through hell and learned some things the hardest way there is to learn, and few others want to hear about it. To allow the rest of America to remain ignorant of what war isis to

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doom America to go to war on a whim. Another definition of veterans is the keepers of our grandchildrens lives. 5. Create a relatively safe space to live with PTS. What about recovering from PTS? And why are we dropping the D? Dont we mean not living with but recovering from this disorder? Certainly, effective treatments for how PTS manifests do exist, giving real hope to the majority of sufferers that they can lead productive, stable, whole lives. At the same time, war changes a person. To expect a person to bounce back to how they were before deployment is misguided. Tim OBrien calls the vet who returns from war internally unscathed insane. Larry Levis says that in wars madness, your knees feel like glass and you must stand up again with great care. Remorse performs its own sentencing; there are few who can talk a conscience into lessening the time or intensity of that suffering. For the same reason that 12-step works for many behavioral problems because it is peer-driven, a vet with PTS often finds great solace among other vets with PTS. This is even more so because the military has engrained a strong sense of cohesion among its members, and war triples that cohesion to the point where, often, no one can be more trusted by a combat vet than his or her war buddy. Nor is anyone more trained to disarm, restrain, or talk sense into a vet. Not only that, but a community has a remarkable ability to pull ones focus off of ones own problems and into

each others for a mutual, shared exploration of solutions. It just happens, and then one feels not only connection but belonging, and not just belonging but significance, and not just significance but empowerment, ability, and dignity. 6. Simplify and destress life. Postmodern life is notoriously complex to navigate even for normal civilians. How much more difficult is it for those haunted by war? In those with PTS, human drives tend to be wreckedeither put into overdrive or annihilated. Either way, the goal of JVIP is to create space in which to heal without frequent invitations to experience drama or imbalance. JVIP aims to exponentially reduce the number of stressors inherent in daily life as our society currently knows it. This narrows the scope of JVIP considerably, because many vets will not wish to give up our societys relentless pursuit of gain, stimuli, and gratification. However, for those vets who have come to a willingness to try a different way, JVIP offers a departure from bills, mortgages, jobs, malls, temporary highs and their accompanying lows, and all the isolation and stress. It looks like digging a sweet potato patch. It looks like catching fish. It looks like having a daily routine. It looks like talking a brother out of a stupid action instead of watching television. It looks like apprenticing with a glassblower to make and sell handiwork instead of climbing the corporate ladder. It looks like hauling produce to a market to sell and having those funds equally distributed among broth-

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ers. Its very simple, even boring, the challenges are often petty ones, like whose turn it is to wash the dishes and then risky ones, like de-escalating a crisis. For some JVIP will not work; for others it may mean sanity and continued life. JVIP is born out of a wish to give those who might otherwise take their lives an option to try another life. At base level, then, JVIP is a survival tactic. 7. Resurrect an ancient tradition. Throughout history, knights battered from war would come home and found almshouses to care for the poor, the widowed, the orphaned, and most markedly, the soldier and sailor worn from war. To these soldiers and sailors, meals were served on silver platters. The Knights of the Order of St. John were best known for establishing these bastions of hospitality and retirement. This was the grounds for a general reclamation of humanity after war. The need is no different or less pressing today. Only, almshouses for vets no longer exist. Their existence has even, largely, been forgotten. JVIP aims to rebuild something like this so that the humanity inside those who have been ravaged by committing, witnessing, and suffering war has a chance to return. Part of that return has to do with regaining ones humanity through community service. In the words of JM Ivler, "We need a program of reintegration that has our young men and women working with students tutoring, in recreation setting and in schools, or rotates them to working in hospitals providing service to those in need, those with life threatening conditions, in hospices helping the terminal, or working with our elderly, those that have lived long lives and need help in the closing moments of theirs. Places where these people who have given up so much of their humanity for us can reconnect with that piece we asked them to leave behind, to reconnect with a society that is not based on the need to kill or be killed."

JVIP aims to transition vets first into a community of their building and second, when they are ready, into the community at large, as described by JM Ivler. JVIP is the tightly knit haven of brethren from which veterans can gain the strength and identity they need to deal effectively with mainstream society. 8. Recivilize society. Professionals diagnose many vets as having community readjustment problems, meaning that the vet can no longer fit in the community. They make this pronouncement often without casting an eye back on the community. As a responsible society, we must ask ourselves whether we are calling on vets to rally toward becoming Willy Loman, and if so, whether that is the wisest response to all who have come home from war. Many vets have successfully adjusted and will readjust to mainstream society; many others need a bridge between the two worlds that may take a week or a decade; others continue to find adjustment a steep challenge and either are tempted to give up or have given up. JVIP challenges the assumption that the sole worthy goal for a vet is complete readjustment into mainstream society. Individuals in mainstream society, especially in the United States, are not necessarily happy. The sheer pettiness of a 9 to 5 after war would challenge the most docile of vets. The seeming pointlessness of it, what Albert Camus called the absurd, gets to legions of civilians. Record numbers are on one or another SSRI. Are we foolish enough to expect vets to merge smoothly into a way of life were not all that happy with? JVIP is not about demanding a readjustment within a certain period of time but rather working with vets and helping them forge a rewarding, meaningful life, whatever their comfort level with mainstream society. 9. Open the gate to a frontier. The need for vets, finally, is JVIPs further reason for existence. Far from being a problem, vets are a

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promise of our own rebirth as a global people. Meet a conscientious vet, and you will meet someone whose firewalk has caused him or her to outshine us all. Vets have been made to understand things civilians havent begun to fathom. You will see a knowledge of how to survive that eliminates the notion of giving up. And quite often, you will see a compassion that has a depth and courage to it that surpasses understanding Vets have a value that ties the truth of our past to the hope of our future. Give up on them, and you give up on us all. Civilians may not see it; veterans themselves may not see it. JVIP is a frontier.

By, for, and about veterans, JVIP proposes a 360degree approach.

10. Save a life. In some ways, the measure of JVIPs success is one life. Back in May, the news stated that the rate of military persons hospitalized for suicidal thoughts had risen 7000 percent. Nothing about JVIP could possibly be as crazy as that statistic or the fact that a suicide among military personnel occurs every 80 minutes. What does it take to pull just one of those lives back? What is that life worth? Its worth anything one can do to cause the machinery of this tragedy to come to a halt. Its worth losing fear of the military, as fear-inspiring as it may get. Its worth working around the clock to get possible solutions shared. Its worth going up against traditional approaches and calling them to the floor on whether they are actually working. Its worth exposing the chicanery looking to get rich off veterans cries for help. Its worth facing the hazard of walking into violence. Its worth putting one mud brick atop another and learning how to dig a sweet potato patch. Its worth handing out hand warmers and dishing out soup. Its worth rethinking everything. In short, that life is worth life.

Plenty of isolated patches are set up to help veterans tackle this or that side of the issue. Many of them last only a few weeks or months at most; they do not deal with the entire individual, and they are constructed such that service providers get paid to provide service and veterans pay to receive those services. Many solutions offered to veterans have nothing to do with veterans building their own solutions and everything to do with veterans falling into the trap of learned helplessness. Therefore, far from proving helpful in the long run, a lot of them turn out to be counterproductive.

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HOW JVIP IS ACHIEVING THESE GOALSPHASE I - LAUNCHED AND ONGOINGPrepare for JVIP 1. Conduct research 2. Meet and collaborate with organizations and agencies Found JVIP 1. Create a mission statement, goals and methods 2. Create Facebook page 3. Create a blog 4. Intensify outreach to veterans and to fellow organizations 5. Explore possibilities of land, community structure, affiliations, funding methods and sources, and organization

PHASE 2 - CURRENTDesign JVIP 1. Create and submit proposal 2. Develop steering committee of eight, at least four from military backgrounds, at least two from mental health backgrounds, and at least two from sustainable living backgrounds 3. Work in cooperation with affiliate organizations such as ACVOW, Veterans Project, Earthaven, Blue Ridge Yurts

PHASE 3 - PLANNEDLaunch JVIP 1. Hold an open design competition via Architecture for Humanity in coordination with their [un]restricted access competition. Incorporate winning design into JVIP master plan. Cost = $4,000 Questions to be answered depending on winning design What is the ideal number of persons, 8 to 20, to inhabit a JVIP community? Default = 12 What is the ideal location for maximum sustainability? Default = rural southern U.S., such as NC sandhills near military base like Bragg, Lejeune, or Cherry Point or NC mountains/foothills. How can the design evolve with the growth of means and needs? Default = see proposed 5-year project cycle What is the total cost of start-up building materials and equipment to establish the colony and sustain the colonists during its initial building? 2. Send two veterans to Pun Pun Center for Self-Reliance to gain knowledge to spearhead the further development of JVIPs living infrastructure. One attends the Food Matters Internship, and the other attends the Shelter Me Internship. Incorporate knowledge base into JVIP master plan.

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Cost per vet Airfare = $2,000 Accomodations = $50 Tuition = $1,200 Total Cost = $3,250 3. Cooperate with land trusts, land-owning veterans, teams from the [un]restricted access competition, and other entities to conduct land search for first colony based on JVIPs specific requirements: for example, land must be at least partially cleared, arable, and with access to clean water. Use of this land may be granted to JVIP via easement, lease, or deed and therefore may cost anywhere between nothing to $12 million. Incorporate chosen property into JVIP master plan. 4. Steering committee chooses a number of veterans to pilot the first JVIP colony. Proposed candidate profile JVIP is not a retreat. It is a colony. It is only for those who have tried without success to fit into mainstream society, and the family has left them, or they have had to leave the family. It is for those functional enough not to need institutionalization or sustained professional intervention but yet with documented community readjustment issues and facing a barrage of problems such as joblessness, foreclosure, divorce, loss of custody, depression, the cost of a motorcycle wreck, the failure of a GI Bill education to deliver an actual job, a military discharge due to a first time drug offense and the consequent loss of any benefits or pension. For the JVIP candidate, it looks as if society has given up on him or her. A JVIP candidate may be seriously considering becoming a mercenary for the Australian armed forces or joining a group of veterans living out in the woods or becoming belligerent with police because brighter, more constructive prospects dont appear to exist. 5. For three months, JVIP colonists meet and strategize from the master plan and attend workshops in organizational skillsets such as consensus-building, deep listening, and how cooperatives function. 6.

J-Day: The colonists arrive at the site of JVIPs first colony. They build the dwellings and thecommons and erect systems of gathering, synthesizing, consuming, and selling available resources to sustain themselves. They take stock of their knowledge base, advertise a call for proposals, and decide on the first three visiting consultants from varying fields such as permaculture, solar energy production, water systems, lumbering, etc. These consultants live in the colony for two weeks to one month, and work toward a deliverable that suits the length of their residency, so that JVIP becomes a living proving ground for green technology that promotes self-reliance.

7. Upon this continuously building groundwork, the colonists evolve ever more sophisti-

cated ways of sustaining themselves, hosting a produce stand, venturing into husbandry, installing a hydroponic system, building a bakery, loom, or kiln, etc. The colonists continue to take stock of their knowledge base and the colonys needs and put out calls for proposals from consultants in the fields they choose. 8. The first JVIP colony becomes established enough for a handful of colonists to branch off and begin

further colonies, following the same process.

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Program Design SketchesLocation SketchFollowing are some of the places to be explored for JVIP.

Community Land Trust Decommissioned military space Farmland easements Abandoned golf courses Land grants from veterans

Consultant Sketch

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Support/Intervention SketchSteering committee contains two certified mental health professionals. Along with group, each colonist and consultant will have access to an accredited professional for an individual weekly counseling session. If the need arises, the colonists have the power by consensus to: 1. 2. 3. 4. hold an intervention with an individual mandate more professional counseling sessions for an individual expel an individual for breaking the rules recommend outside intervention

Colony Development Process Sketch: gather, grow, raise, make, consult, lead

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Resource Distribution Sketch

The colonists make a team that administers its own program. Decision making occurs by consensus. The steering committee mentors the colonists, seeks support funding when necessary, and intercedes with a decision only when there is a crisis. Overall, those who directly receive the benefits drive the decisionmaking, organization, and operation of the colony.

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Habitation Sketch

Possible building materials/modes Yurts (16), hexayurts, earthships, strawbale houses, The above design is similar to some African villages--formed by the same mathematical principle as a fractal.

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Evaluations and Assessments

Daily

Weekly

Monthly

Quarterly Report

Yearly

2 Years

5 Years

Colonists

Sunday rest & reflect Weekly counseling session After-dinner check in.

Survey Counselors Assessments

Financials

Weekly assessment

Quarterly Budget Report

Colony Operations

Maintenance Check Sunday rest & reflect

Operations Report EOM Project Report

Monthly Operations Reports EOM Project Reports Steering Committee Quarterly Findings

Annual Report with Quarterly and overall findings

2-year External Audit by NGO

5-year External Audit by NGO

Consultants

Steering Committee

Meetings

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The Joie de Vivre Independence Project Logic ModelInputsIn order to accomplish our set of activities we will need the following from: Veteran Colonists: Commitment

ActivitiesIn order to meet our goals we will conduct the following activities:

Outputs

Outcomes

ImpactWe expect that if completed these activities will lead to the following changes:

We expect that once completed or under We expect that if completed or ongoing way these activities will produce the follow- these activities will lead to the following ing evidence of service delivery: changes in 13 then 46 years: Increasing percentage of food, clothing, housing, and income needs met inside of colony in sustainable ways. Increasing independence and knowledge base.

Build and maintain selfsustaining colony, apprenticing with consultants to develop sustainability, community, well-being, and selfreliance.

In 1 3 years

In 7 - 10 years

A self-perpetuating growth of expertise in self-reliance as senior JVIP members mentor junior members. The measured continuing recovery of approximately 20 veterans: lessening PTS events, decreased need for prescription substances, decreased sense of isolation and hopelessness, increased sense of confidence and belonging. The launching of five future colonies equipped with experience from the past. In 4 6 years Profitable cooperatives in such fields as glass-blowing, baking, green building, permaculture, aquaculture, and xeriscaping. The measured continuing recovery of over 100 veterans. Ability for recovered vets to now become community leaders either in new JVIP colonies or in mainstream society.

Consultants: Proposals

Bring know-how into proposed projects that develop the colony toward sustainability, community, well-being, and self-reliance.

Working water treatment, agricultural, husbandry, energy generation, and architectural solutions piloted, tested, and integrated into an actual community.

A close- knit network of JVIP colonies throughout one region of United States linked by mutual trade and support, helping the economy recover. The measured continuing recovery of 1000 veterans. A measured reduction among military and post-military individuals in: suicide, homelessness, unemployment, substance abuse, debt, PTS episodes, and depression. A reclamation of dignity for many veterans. A recycling of portions of postmilitary land. The pioneering of methods in green building, permaculture, community building, and sustainability.

Steering Committee Members: Leadership

Select and mentor veteran colonists, coordinate initial organizational workshops, conduct interventions if necessary, and maintain outside funding until unnecessary.

The clinically measured continued recovery of approximately twelve veterans from post-deployment mental health, economic, housing, and other crises.

Crowdsource Sites: Start-up Funding

Contribute 60% of launch funding.

Samples of first produce/products.

Traditional Funding Sources: Grants

Contribute 40% of launch funding and a steady stream of maintenance funding to taper off within five years.

Progress reports on JVIP projects, personal stories, and future plans.

NGO Affiliates: Partnering and Cooperation

Provide avenues of participation in finding workable land, architectual design, expertise, candidates, consultants, and resources such as equipment.

Ongoing mutually beneficial cooperation in working to address homelessness, PTS, suicide, economic crisis, and environmental degradation.

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ResourcesTRAINING Treating the Invisible Wounds of War Creativity and the Arts in Health Care Settings. Annette Ridenour. JAMA: 1998; 279(5): 402. Does writing reduce posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms? Deters PB, Range LM. University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg 39406-5025, USA. Empire - Hollywood and the war machine. YouTube. From Soldier to Student, a Bumpy Road. Alex Horton. Posted on At War. NY Times: September 28, 2011. Gulf War Vets' Children Have More Birth Defects. Gamboa, Suzanne. AP, 5 Oct 2001. http://www.mindfully.org/ Health/Gulf-Children-Defects.htm Healing Cast in a New Light: The Therapy of Artistic Creation. Pamela Dalziel Cruze. JAMA: 1998; 279(5): 402. Home From War and Facing Eviction. Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. Mother Jones: Jul. 28, 2011. How Wounded Healer Stories Help Us Heal. Jonna Goulding. Aftershock Conference, November 12. Incorporating Art and Creativity into Medical Practice. Ron Willy JAMA: 1998; 279(5): 402. Iraq vet, rescued from suicide, tells of VA gaps. Brett Coughlin. POLITICO: 7/14/11. Journal as a Guide for the Healing Journey. Anne L. Day. Holistic Nursing Care: March 2001; 36(1). Marriage of Art and Science in Health Care. John R. Grahan-Pole. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine: 74(2001), pp. 2127. Music Therapy in Pain Management. Lucanne Magill Bailey. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management: 1(1), Winter1986. New Hanover Regional gives veterans quality care, closer to their homes. StarNews: 9/30/2007.

BOOKS Droek, Boris and John P. Wilson (Eds.). Voices of Trauma: Treating Psychological Trauma Across Cultures. New York: Springer Science, 2007. 395 pp. Gray, J. Glenn. The Warriors: reflections on men in battle. Bison, 1959. Meagher, Ilona. Moving a Nation to Care: post-traumatic stress disorder and America's returning troops: Ig: May 1, 2007. Shay, Jonathon. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. Simon & Schuster (October 1, 1995) Tick, Edward. War and the Soul: Healing our nations veterans from post-traumatic stress disorder. Quest Books, 2005.

ARTICLES/PAPERS/TALKS 18 veterans kill themselves every day: report. Sahil Kapur. Raw Story: Friday, April 23, 2010. Army Reports Highest Suicide Numbers in 2011. Bryan Maxwell. IAVA: May 19 2011. Beyond the Yellow Ribbon: Helping Veterans Readjust to Civilian Life a seminar to help pastors and leaders better ministry to returning veterans. Presenter: Max Furman, support chaplain for the PA Army National Guard, previously served tours in Iraq and Bosnia: October 23, 2008. Bombs, war and the mysteries of the brain: How The Post's TBI story came to be. Posted Impact of War. WashingtonPost: 8:46 AM ET, 10/ 4/2010. "Creative writing in health care: a branch of complementary medicine." Fiona Sampson, Ed., Patient Education and Counseling 57 (2005) 1 - 4.

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Office of Surgeon General Mental Health Advisory Team (MHAT) IV, Final Report, Nov 06. Officials announce veterans 'super clinic' at Wilmington airport. StarNews: 12/04/2009. Psychological impact of writing about abuse or positive experiences. Antal HM, and Range, LM. University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5025, USA. Soldiers and suicide. Chris Miller. The Guardian: August 17, 2011. Towards Knowing: Can We Teach and Develop the Capacity for Empathy? Kerryellen Vroman. Aftershock Conference, November 12, 2010. Veteran for veterans. Andrea Granahan. Sebastopol: November 4, 2011. Veterans committees to look at suicides. Brett Coughlin. POLITICO: 5/24/11 War's Pain, Softened With a Brush Strokel VA's Art Therapy Eases Battle Stresses. Jackie Spinner, Washington Post: April 15, 2007.

LITERATURE Brown, Suzanne Hunter. Echoes of War: A Literature and Medicine Anthology, Maine Humanities Council. Homer. The Iliad. Homer. The Odyssey. OBrien, Tim. In the Lake of the Woods. A novel. Pearmain, Elisa Davy, Editor. Doorways to the Soul: 52 Wisdom Tales from Around the World. Eugene, OR: Resource Publications, 1998. Theater of War: a project that presents readings of ancient Greek plays to service members, veterans, caregivers and families as a catalyst for discussions about the challenges faced be combat veterans today.

FILM Burmese Harp, The (1956) Biruma no tategoto (original title) - Kon Ichikawa Drama | Music | War - 28 April 1967 (USA) Dreams (1990) - Akira Kurosawa - Drama | Fantasy - 24 August 1990 (USA) Ashoka the Great (2001) - Santosh Sivan Action | Drama | History - 26 October 2001 (India) Ground Truth, The: After the Killing Ends (original title) - Patricia Foulkrod - Documentary | War Incendies (2010) - Denis Villeneuve - Drama | Mystery | War - 12 January 2011 (Belgium) Kuroneko (Black Cat From The Grove ; Yabu No Naka No Kuroneko) - Kaneto Shindo Drama 1968 No Man's Land (2001) - Danis Tanovic Comedy | Drama | War - 19 September 2001 (France) Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (2007) - Richard Robbins Documentary - 9 February 2007 (USA) Restrepo - Tim Hetherington, Sebastian Junger - Documentary | War - 18 February 2011 (Poland) Ryan's Daughter (I) (1970) - David Lean Drama | Romance - 17 December 1970 (West Germany) Warrior, The (2001) Asif Kapadia - Adventure | Drama - 15 July 2005 (USA) When I Came Home (2006) - Dan Lohaus Documentary

POETRY Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa For Zbigniew Herbert, Summer, 1971, Los Angeles by Larry Levis

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The Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible by Galway Kinnell The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner by by Randall Jarrell

ORGANIZATIONS American Art Therapy Association American Combat Veterans of War (ACVOW) Architecture for Humanity Geiger Research Institute of Sustainable Building Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) The Mission Continues National Coalition for Homeless Veterans (NCHV) Project Evergreen Project Foot Pun Pun Center for Self-Reliance Society for the Arts in Healthcare (SAH) Soldiers Heart Team Red, White & Blue Veteran Homestead Veterans Farm

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