Posted on Nov 21, 2018

You Could Change Their Lives – Heroes and PTSD

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A Blog post on a subject close to me. Please take a moment even if you have no association with the Veteran, Law Enforcement or First Responder community. A small change in your perspective could save someone this holiday season.

Its also Thanksgiving weekend, I challenge you to read the article and let it impact your holiday.

You Could Change Their Lives – Heroes and PTSD

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COL Mikel J. Burroughs

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Great post by a warrior and awesome Board Member of Victory for Veterans Foundation SSgt Terry Jenkins He's back.

https://victoryforveterans.org/you-could-change-their-lives-heroes-and-ptsd/

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You Could Change Their Lives – Heroes and PTSD

We live in an era where this term has become an everyday headline and yet so few in our culture understand why it exists. How do we live in a culture where violence, death and killing are on every TV show, movie and video game we play and yet this is still a problem? Many of the violent acts in our culture can be traced to the idea that by seeing fake death constantly you become indifferent to it, it desensitizes you. This is what video games...

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SSgt Terry Jenkins

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COL Mikel J. Burroughs I don’t like the hero title, I have done nothing worthy of that. I appreciate the comments but my goal is not accolades, rather I hope more will follow and simply tell the simple truths. Our lives are surrounded by sound bites and negativity we must talk plain and share experiences. All of the generations before us passed down stories. I learned life from my grandparents over long conversations. We are living in a time when more information is shared electronically than was ever written before in history and yet we fail to say anything. I hope the simple truths I have learned in my life can help someone nothing more. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

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SMSgt Tom Burns

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Thanks for the post Colonel. ! Well done to SSGT Terry Jenkins

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COL Mikel J. Burroughs

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SSgt Terry Jenkins - You'll always be a hero in my book with what you've done for veterans Terry! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving brother and thank you for all the wonderful support, friendship, and camaraderie!

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