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Hero’s Journey 4: Mentors, Challenges, Trials and Descent

Hero’s Journey 4: Mentors, Challenges, Trials and Descent

By Peter Sessum

Week four of the Veterans Administration therapy program. So far in our Hero’s Journey we have answered the call to adventure, crossed the threshold and now found mentors. Using the Matrix example, as the book often does, Neo has answered the call to adventure, taken the red pill, crossed the threshold from the known world (the Matrix) into the unknown (the real world) and…

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Well, shit...

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W.D. Ehrhart served with 1st Battalion 1st Marines in Vietnam from early February 1968 to late February 1969. He holds a Purple Heart, the Combat Action Ribbon, and the Presidential Unit Citation, among other awards and medals.

Here, he talks about some of his experiences in Vietnam and what he thought about it. Absolutely worth the watch.

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Iraq and Back - One year later

#Iraq and Back - One year later, story about the transition home. #veteran #dogtagchronicles

The author at an Iraqi Police Station in Karada, Baghdad,

By Justin Williams

Author’s Note: I originally wrote this piece in 2010, one year after returning home from Iraq. Four years later, it seems just as relevant now as it did then.

I spent all of 2008 and most of 2009 preparing for and then deploying overseas to Iraq with the Washington National Guard’s 81st Heavy Brigade Combat Team. I’ve…

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That makes 10. He's lost ten friends this year...

God, please help me help him...