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General News    H4'ed 10/29/13

Returning Veterans Heal Broken Souls Through Farming

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Veterans are returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and often face overwhelming challenges transitioning to civilian life. The documentary, "Ground Operations: Battlefields to Farmfields" is the story of how some of them are healing themselves through farming, while promoting the food industry. America needs a million new farmers, and returning vets can used war-related skills in tilling the soil. See the trailer here.
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Meryl Ann Butler is an artist, author, educator and OpedNews Managing Editor who has been actively engaged in utilizing the arts as stepping-stones toward joy-filled wellbeing since she was a hippie. She began writing for OpEdNews in Feb, 2004. She became a Senior Editor in August 2012 and Managing Editor in January, (more...)
 

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