Vet To Vet Ohio

The WRAP or Wellness Recovery Action Plan is a way to provide... Through Facilitators and Certified Peer Support Specialists inside.

(CLEVELAND) - There are no words that adequately express the importance of employing our military veterans when they return home. There are potential problems that these men and women suffer and bear, yet they are also the most reliable individuals any employer is likely to hire.

In the context of helping, there is no person who can help a Veteran, better than another Veteran. Sometimes the needs are severe, sometimes it is the simple understanding and camaraderie that goes with a common background, and therefore a common understanding.

Vet To Vet Ohio

Facilitators are not paid, they volunteered for the job,
I was honored, asked to attend by my dear friend Bob,
All Vets are welcome I guarantee you’ll not be board,
And for more information visit, www.vet2vetohio.org

At the soon to be history Brecksville VA in room 217A,
My friend, a peer counselor got the meeting underway,
So with Bob’s wife Mindy once a former guest speaker,
I jumped into my presentation as a soldier not a teacher.

John, Derrick, Kevin, Rick, Larry, Dennis, Steve on my left,
Everyone participated there’s no chance to run out of breath,
It is each one, teach one, we jelled & grew group as a group,
Some had more than others yet no one was left out of the loop.

Achieving psychiatric recovery, addiction, problems that we,
Face through military service which only Veterans might see,
Whereas some come through in days for many healing is long,
“We are here for ourselves” declares founder Moe Armstrong.

What is deleted, destroyed and so on is not always monetary cost,
“We can regain a connection with people & some of what we lost.”
Moe knows, “many Veterans will not ask for help till it’s too late,”
His brainchild, “Vet To Vet” is meant to reverse doomsday’s fate.

While there is no formal memo or understanding that designates,
It’s this freedom of creativity during the sessions that originates,
An aura of sincerity that flows freely as a mid summer’s breeze,
To unlock and help repair frustration fellowship is the only key.

"Our lives begin to end the day we remain silent about things that matter",
It’s a quote from Martin Luther King Jr, and there’s no worthless chatter,
Not just found in Ohio Vet To Vet is somewhat like a burger food chain,
Where a special sauce is poured on everything our Veterans might bring.

The WRAP or Wellness Recovery Action Plan is a way to provide,
Through Facilitators and Certified Peer Support Specialists inside,
With training to assist not just the Vet but family and close friends,
Operating independently since the year 2004, let the healing begin.

Luke Easter is a poet who writes about things that are very close to the heart of Salem-News.com. Another former U.S. Marine, Luke heals the world with an approach that reaches people on a different level, one known for centuries, yet too often forgotten in the one we live in.

We live in a world of social & economic injustice. The main reason for founding America in the first place was to relieve the oppression of the King of England. Patrick Henry said it best, “give me liberty or give me death.” And yet, all too often death seems to be the only way out. Why is there such a high suicide rate especially among teens, in the land of the free & the home of the brave? What makes headlines? Good news? Ha! More depressing stories than anything else. I feel poetry takes an edge off the hurt of bad news while still delivering it but in a, “glitzy” sort of way. Giving a different perspective. Kind of like slap in the face as opposed to a knife in the back. At least with the slap you’ll live to see another day and you will know whom it’s from. I wasn’t here for the beginning of the world but at 59, I just might be here for the end.

Even though it’s still a knife, rhyme poetry helps to dull the blade. And that’s my job. You can write to Luke Easter at: lyricsfromlucas@aol.com