Veteran Services & Mediation: "When Worlds Collide"

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...When Worlds Collide

By Lynne Kinnucan

“The past is never dead. It's not even past.”

William Faulkner

The nightly news runs films of returning veterans, happy families, strangers holding up signs of gratitude and respect. Yet too many never make it back at all, and of those who do - the ones who suffer no memorial but their own - re-entry is often more of a collision than a homecoming. The shell-shocked father in a shouting match with his wife as the family begins to crumble. The commanding officer who knows that obedience is the first law of survival and goes into shock when a workplace employee says no.

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