Walking Toward Peace. Cindy Ross

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      ISBN (paperback): 978-1-68051-303-5

      ISBN (ebook): 978-1-68051-304-2

       To the memory of Zachary Adamson and to all the veterans who so courageously opened their hearts and shared their incredibly personal stories of healing.

      CONTENTS

       PROLOGUE

       PART ONE: THE TRAIL PROVIDES

       Chapter 1. EARL SHAFFER

       Chapter 2. STEVE CLENDENNING

       Chapter 3. ADAM BAUTZ

       Chapter 4. TOM GATHMAN

       Chapter 5. ILENE HENDERSON

       PART TWO: THE TRAIL REVEALS

       Chapter 6. TOMMY BUCCI

       Chapter 7. MARIO KOVACH

       Chapter 8. SHAWN MURPHY

       Chapter 9. STEPHANIE CUTTS

       Chapter 10. ZACH ADAMSON

       PART THREE: THE TRAIL HEALS

       Chapter 11. TRAVIS JOHNSTON

       Chapter 12. SEAN REILLY

       Chapter 13. DAN STEIN

       Chapter 14. JESSE BIER

       Chapter 15. GABE VASQUEZ

       Chapter 16. THE BAMBA BOYS

       Chapter 17. RIVER HOUSE PA VETERANS

       EPILOGUE

       Author’s Note: The Path to Healing and Post-Traumatic Growth

       Acknowledgments

       Programs that Take Veterans into Nature

       Bibliography

       All stories have a curious, even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth—yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes it nearly impossible to handle. It is such a great responsibility that it’s best not to tell a story at all unless you know you can do it right. You must be very careful, or without knowing it, you can change the world.

      —Vera Nazarian, Dreams of the Compass Rose

      PROLOGUE

      THE SOFT SOUND OF FALLING rain filled the evening air, pulling our attention to the tattooed man who turned the rainstick. When the hollow cactus tube was flipped, tiny pebbles trickled down the thorns inside, making a rainlike sound, an indication to the group gathered around the campfire that the person then holding the stick had the floor. When the СКАЧАТЬ