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WWII Veteran Meets Woman Who Wrote Him Thank-You Letter 12 Years Ago

2021

A World War II veteran received a letter from a third grader 12 years ago that thanked him for his service. He has carried the letter with him everywhere since. Steve Hartman shares more in “On the Road.”

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Unbroken, Wounded Warriors Overcome Injury to Find New Strength

More than 600,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans have been left partially or totally disabled from physical or psychological wounds received during their service. Some of them compete in the Defense Department Warrior Games and find a place to continue to overcome.

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Mandy Oaklander, Erik Tanner (photography)
2015
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Chicken Soup for the Veteran’s Soul: Stories to Stir the Pride and Honor the Courage of Our Veterans

Chicken Soup for the Veteran’s Soul will inspire and touch any veterans and their families, and allow others to appreciate the freedom for which they fought.

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Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Sidney R. Slagter
2025
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The Transition You Never Asked For: Finding Meaning after Losing Your Military Career to Disability

You can build back your life

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Meredith Mathis
2021
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Wheels of Courage: How Paralyzed Veterans from World War II Invented Wheelchair Sports, Fought for Disability Rights, and Inspired a Nation

Wheels of Courage tells the stirring story of the soldiers, sailors, and marines who were paralyzed on the battlefield during World War II-at the Battle of the Bulge, on the island of Okinawa, inside Japanese POW camps—only to return to a world unused to dealing with their traumatic injuries.

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David Davis
2022
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Run, Don’t Walk: The Curious and Courageous Life Inside Walter Reed Army Medical Center

In her six years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Adele Levine rehabilitated soldiers admitted in worse and worse shape.

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Adele Levine
2015
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Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Solomon’s startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition—that difference is what unites us.

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Andrew Solomon
2013
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