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When veterans return home, the injuries people notice most are often the ones they can see. A missing limb.A brace or prosthetic.A limp.A scar across the skin. These wounds invite empathy. They are concrete. They make sense to people. They fit into familiar narratives of sacrifice and survival. But for many veterans, the most enduring injuries are not visible at all. They live in the nervous system.They reside in the body’s responses to sound, light, stress, and memory.They show up long after...

For many veterans living with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), healing does not happen all at once, and it does not always happen through words. Trauma is often stored beyond language, embedded in memory, sensation, and the nervous system. For this reason, creative visual art has emerged as a powerful and accessible healing modality for veterans navigating the complex journey of recovery after service. Creative visual art - painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media, and other forms of...

As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, the country is preparing to celebrate its founding ideals—freedom, liberty, and justice. But any honest commemoration must also confront a difficult truth: Black soldiers have defended those ideals since the nation’s birth, even when America denied them full rights, protection, and belonging in return. From the earliest days of the American Revolutionary War , Black men, enslaved and free, fought for independence in hopes of freedom...