Brothers and Sisters Like These
Stories of Veterans Through Poems and Essays
Brothers and Sisters Like These
Stories of Veterans Through Poems and Essays
About Us
IN 2014, a group of Vietnam combat veterans began meeting at the Charles George VAMC to participate in a novel creative writing program. The focus was on capturing their stories through narrative and poetry to find the voices war had taken from them. There was hope to reclaim a sense of their shared humanity, build camaraderie and find some degree of healing.
In 2017, a staged reading of the veterans’ work, Brothers Like These, was hosted at the Asheville Community Theatre. Eighteen of the veterans read their work to a captivated audience. The evening was a watershed moment in underscoring the healing value of bearing witness. The men’s lives began to take on new meaning.
Since its premier, additional readings have been staged at Appalachian State University and other venues across North Carolina, and the book, Brothers Like These, published by St. Andrews University Press, remains the Press’s best seller. The creative writing initiative at Charles George VAMC is ongoing, and efforts are underway to spread the work beyond those walls.
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