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How to Be a True Friend to a Family Caregiver

By Carol Bradley Bursack — 2021

Family caregivers often find that their social circles shrink over time. Casual friends are typically the first to drift away because a caregiver is too busy to get together, but close friends may disappear eventually as well. These friends are not bad people, though. More than likely, they don’t know how to help a caregiver and they find it easier to share their time with people whose lives are less complicated.

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The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War

One night in 1967, twenty-six-year-old John Donohue—known as Chick—was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar. The friends gathered there had lost loved ones in Vietnam. Now they watched as antiwar protesters turned on the troops themselves.

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Brian and Natalie Vines: Strategies for Self-Care for Caregivers

Retired veteran Brian Vines is the fulltime caregiver for his Army veteran wife, Natalie Vines, who has TBI and PTSD. He knows that to be a good caregiver, he has to take time for himself whether that means a short break in the day or a meaningful reboot through retreats with other caregivers.

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WWII Vet forms Unlikely Friendship with Toddler

3.5 year-old Emmet has an unusual friendship with his neighbor, 89.5 year-old Erling. The two are nearly inseparable. You always hope that a tale such as this one will result in a happy ending, but life just isn't that simple . . .

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Disabled Veterans Help Each Other Heal Through Fly Fishing

In 1968, Edward Veaudry was drafted to the US ARMY and during his service he transported over 400 deceased GI’s to Saigon where they were taken home to US soil.

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Anna Coleman Ladd made masks for Veterans who suffered face injuries during World War I.

Anna Coleman Ladd made masks for Veterans who suffered face injuries during World War I.

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Saving My Enemy: How Two WWII Soldiers Fought Against Each Other and Later Forged a Friendship That Saved Their Lives

Don Malarkey grew up scrappy and happy in Astoria, Oregon—jumping off roofs, playing pranks, a free-range American. Fritz Engelbert’s German boyhood couldn’t have been more different. Regimented and indoctrinated by the Hitler Youth, he was introspective and a loner.

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We Are All in This Together

Jack was wounded in Vietnam after landing in a hot LZ. He lost some of his Marines that day and after returning home, grieved their loss by turning to drugs and alcohol.

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Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-Being

“This book will help you flourish.” With this sentence, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flourish, his first book in ten years—and the first to present his dynamic new concept of what well-being really is.

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