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Why I Envy the National Guard
Imagine being given an opportunity to confront racism, injustice, oppression, and inequality all in one moment? A moment that will be captured on images and beamed around the world in seconds, a moment that will demonstrate compassion in the face of hatred, and project strength in the form of tolerance? That’s the golden opportunity being given to the National Guard troops sent into American cities, and I envy them that opportunity. It’s not going to [...]
New Direction, New Website
My Uncle Tim gave me some great advice when I got out of the Marine Corps: "You don't have to know what you're going to do forever. You only have to know what you're going to do next." I followed his advice, going from military to civilian pilot for a few years before staying home with the kids. That switch gave me the opportunity to discover something I might never have otherwise: I truly love [...]
Mmm, crow–yum.
A fellow Marine called me to the carpet about my last blog entry. Specifically, she confronted me--professionally and privately--about several assertions I made about the effectiveness of the #22KILL campaign in accomplishing its goal of raising awareness about veteran suicide. More than that, though, she pointed out that I'd denigrated a group that was trying to do its best to address a problem in order to promote my own work. Ouch. That stung. Mostly [...]
How to address veteran suicide–other than filming ourselves doing pushups, I mean.
I've done the 22 pushups-thing. Other than giving my giant mutt unfettered access to thoroughly tongue my ears, I can't say they accomplished much. That's not completely true--my ears are sparkly clean--but that wasn't the point. The short videos were supposed to help raise awareness that an alarming number of veterans are choosing to take their own lives. I don't know who started the whole campaign but I think it has, thankfully, run [...]
Continuing Actions: Free 9-12 Nov for Veterans Day
Two months ago I made the ebook of Continuing Actions: A Warrior's Guide to Coming Home free so people could read, review, and feel comfortable recommending it to the veterans in their lives. Here's a link to that post: https://www.dansheehanauthor.com/mines-no-seriously-mines/ Here's the second free period: The ebook version of Continuing Actions will be free again from 9-12 November, 2018. Veterans often reunite with each other around Veterans Day, even if only over profanity laden texts. I hope that [...]
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