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Author Vallieres, Robert C

Title Wounded warriors : a soldier's story of healing through birds / Robert C. Vallieres with Jacquelyn M. Howard ; foreword by Cynthia Parsons
Published Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, [2014]

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Contents Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Inglorious Injury; 2. Invisible Wounds; 3. Bands; 4. The Soft Part Dies; 5. Carrying Guilt; 6. Peregrines, Pigeons, Power Towers, and Providence; 7. Nightjars: Nighthawks by Any Other Name; 8. Eagles at the Brewery; 9. Home Station and Back Again; 10. Aftermath; 11. Like Snow in Summer; 12. Holy Thursday up on the Crag; 13. Newfound Pair; 14. Scuds and a Paper Death; 15. Ode to My Son, 28 August 2007; 16. Ode to My Son, 3 October 2007; 17. Ode to My Son, Reflections; 18. The Call of God; 19. Eagles on the Island
20. They Steal My Blood and Sanity Sometimes21. Three-Quarters of the Way up Eaglet Spire; 22. Backside Slide; 23. Square Ledge; 24. Vagueness; 25. Red-Tails, Peregrines, and the Church; 26. A Journey of My Own; 27. Self-Authentication; 28. Northern Flicker on Father's Day; 29. Nevermore; 30. War and Effects; 31. Little Round Top; 32. Dacron; 33. One Cup of Tea; 34. Cages; 35. Wings Shift, Revealing Creation; 36. Merrill Park; 37. Larry Pelland's Story about Me; 38. Writing This Book; 39. Recap
Summary Robert C. Vallieres struggled to find his ônew normalö when he returned home after serving in the military. An accident in Kuwait left him suffering from traumatic brain injury (TBI) internal injuries, leaving him in constant pain. After clinics, bottles of painkillers, and behavior modification pills, hope seemed to vanish. Then a local weekly newspaper ad caught his eye: a bird-watching trip to see raptors in the mountains of New Hampshire. An Emily Dickinson poem that states, ôHope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tuneùwithout the words, and never stops at
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Subject Vallieres, Robert C. -- Mental health
SUBJECT Vallieres, Robert C. fast
Subject Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
Brain damage -- Patients -- Rehabilitation
Bird watching -- Therapeutic use
Veterans -- Mental health -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Medical.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
Bird watching -- Therapeutic use
Brain damage -- Patients -- Rehabilitation
Mental health
Post-traumatic stress disorder -- Patients
Veterans -- Mental health
United States
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Howard, Jacquelyn M
ISBN 9781612345833
1612345832