Wounded Times Two Years Old Today

I can't believe two years has come and gone already on this blog. Last month was a very good month for views.

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Friday, July 03 – Saturday, August 01
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I really want to thank all the readers and subscribers for sticking with me. It's been a rough couple of years, constant struggles with God, wanting to blow my top too many times or wanting to just stay in bed knowing that each day bring more heartbreaking stories to read and post along with all the emails to get through. I also know that at some point in the day, there will be an incredible story to renew my faith in the human spirit, like the post I did on the Patriot Guard Riders taking a memorial flag after a Vietnam Veteran's funeral from California all the way to Florida and what happened on the way.

Between Screaming In An Empty Room and this blog, there are over 17,000 posts and there were even more on older blogs long gone. This isn't the kind of blog a casual reader wants to get into. Far too few posts offer "happy days" news. It's all about trauma, heartbreak, violence, suffering, the troops, veterans, families, police officers and firefighters. It's also about people making a difference and that's what I want to focus on right now. All of the above wanted to make a difference or they wouldn't have gone into the line of work they did. They make a difference in our lives everyday.

There are also quiet, simple heroes making a difference like the group of men in Washington DC rushing to pull people out of cars after a bad accident or the off duty firefighters pulling people out of a burning car along with other witnesses risking their own lives to help. These are the people I do this for as well, but to tell you the truth, they end up helping me because I am able to read their stories and know that no matter how bad things seem, how lonely this world and work can be, there are true heroes walking around this nation side by side with the rest of us, asking nothing in return when they go above and beyond to help total strangers.

Local news stations and papers will report on what goes on in that one area of the country, but people in the rest of the country wouldn't have a clue and I believe acts of human kindness need to be publicized as much as possible to inspire others. I believe it's also true that when we have someone suffering in Seattle Washington and someone else suffering in Miami Florida, it offers a lot of comfort to know there is someone with the same kind of pain they can relate to and perhaps even find comfort in that.

Doing this blog is one of the hardest things I've done in my life but I wouldn't trade a day of it, even though I do a lot of complaining in the process, the truth is, they all mean more to me than just a post on a blog. I can't be detached from any of it. The good thing is that I can't be detached from the good posts about what average people manage to do either. That's a good thing and I shed good tears over them.

The most amazing people though to me have to be the families finally talking about PTSD and what their loved one goes through. They are understanding there is nothing to be ashamed of and no reason to hide any of it. It's because of their courage to speak the truth that things are happening a lot faster than during the time when PTSD was America's best kept secret. Because of them a lot of lives have been saved.

Thank you again for reading this blog and being a subscriber. You prove that people care everyday and I know you could be reading entertaining blogs instead, so I am very grateful to all of you. I couldn't do this without your support and your time.

Love
Chaplain Kathie