51��’ Stories Through Poems & Essays – Brothers & Sisters Like These

Michel Robertson — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 17:18:00 +0000

The mission of The NC 51�� Writing Alliance Foundation and Brothers and Sisters Like These is to provide healing through the arts and creative writing to veterans of all conflicts.

Join us at the Etowah Library as military veterans of different eras gather to read their stories, essays, and poetry. The venue is part of a project called Brothers and Sisters Like These, a series of writing workshops designed to help heal veterans with PTSD and mild TBI (traumatic brain injury).

Seats are still available

Date:
Saturday, March 8, 2025

Time:
10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

Venue: Etowah Library
101 Brickyard Rd, Etowah, NC 28729

Admission: Free. Registration required

To Register by phone call: 828-891-6577

Veteran Speaker

Men and women from the Vietnam, Desert Storm, and Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts will open their hearts with passion, and sometimes humor, as they address the many trials of combat. The event is sponsored by the 51��.

51�� from all conflicts relate their combat experiences as part of the PTSD healing process. The audience is a major factor in the therapeutic process

Experiences of War

51��’ experiences of war and its consequences are offered at a great emotional cost by men and women who trust an audience enough to stand before them and tell their stories. They draw us together as they invite us to bear witness to their accounts of healing and recovery. We return their extraordinary gift of faith with one of our own: open hearts and the gift of listening.

Experience the “remarkable voices of unimaginably brave soldiers who gave their all during conflict. These are stories and poems, large and small, funny and heartbreaking — not just invaluable to succeeding generations of soldiers, but to every citizen of our country, and beyond.”

Jospeh Bathanti
Professor of English, Appalachian State University

For information about this performance of Brothers and Sisters Like These, contact Michel Robertson at 828-506-6603.

Vietnam veteran Carl Zipperer speaks to the audience during a Brothers and Sisters Like These reading at the 51�� Healing Farm in 2024.

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51������’ Stories Through Poems & Essays – Brothers & Sisters Like These

The mission of The NC 51������ Writing Alliance Foundation and Brothers and Sisters Like These is to provide healing through the arts and creative writing to veterans of all conflicts.