Workshop Lets Veterans Share Their Stories

Those Who Served in Iraq and Afghanistan Meet to Bond, Give and Get Emotional Support Washington Post Staff Writer The dozen men and women gathered in a Loudoun County hotel conference room yesterday morning hardly knew each other. But all had served in the U.S. military in Iraq or Afghanistan, and all seemed to agree that few people in their lives -- relatives, colleagues, friends -- were willing to listen to their stories, to know about traumas they carried home. "They don't want to hear it," said Teresa Rogers, 38, who went to Iraq as an Army truck driver. And that is why they had come together -- to tell and listen to those stories. The group was participating in a weekend-long peer support workshop offered by Vets4Vets, an Arizona-based organization that aims to get veterans talking to one another, on the theory that... [read full story]