“What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from other; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.”
~ Starhawk, Author

Dear Supporters and Contributors,

We wish to thank you for your wonderful donations and supportive words of encouragement for the Findlay family!

As many of you know, my father returned from WWII as a 101st Airborne paratrooper veteran with two purple hearts and the Bronze Star Medal. His division also received two Presidential Unit Citations for Normandy and The Battle of the Bulge.

But like many men and women returning from the war both then and today, they talked little about it, only to say that the real heroes gave their lives in battle. My father would write, “I’m surprised that my life and body is still in tact,” and suffered guilt in making it through the process. He would later write about seeing things one should never see… It is almost as though Dad was ashamed to speak of those horrors of war and through his silence was bound together with his comrades.

Like my father, Rob Findlay does not speak of the battle details. But did you know that apart from his Humvee being hit time after time, that for those who survived, they had to clean and prepare the Humvee for use again? This meant removing those that did not survive and beginning the process all over again. No one wants to speak of these things. But it is important for us back home to know what these men and women endured physically, mentally and emotionally.

This is not so different from now with the soldiers of today, our Soldiers Of The Now and veterans like Rob Findlay. If only they can take the risk to speak it, heal from it and go forward. But they need our help to make their way back to who they used to be. Rob Findlay’s compelling story of his two tours in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Division came to our attention during our veteran interview process and moved us. He now suffers as many of the soldiers do from TBI, Seizures, Migraines and PTSD.

Please help us spread the fundraiser link gfwd.at/1oHnGGP and help this young man on his path to recovery. Once he gets back on his feet, he has vowed to become an advocate to help other veterans. What better thank you is there than to help a fellow veteran?

Thank you for your support!

Jenny La Sala

Proud Veteran’s Daughter
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