1. Dr. Elena Klaw

2.  Film Clip: How to Fold A Flag  Why tell the story of vets?  Narrative  Narrating the self discussion

3.  Education: Creates community of support, reduces stereotypes.  Psychotherapy: Repeated tellings in a nonjudgmental context habituate the teller to the painful details of the memory and allows him/her to integrate the memory and the emotions.  Reduces self blame, anger, despair and self destructive behavior.

4.  Memory is both a representation of the event, what we we were able to understand and process at the time of an event, what we were told, and our feelings about what happened.  Ideas about sequence may come later as we take memory out of limbic system and process it with language.  Narratives are thematic stories we tell ourselves about our role in life events, the choices we had or have, come from the stories we have heard and/or lived.

5. Partner Interview:  Who are you ? (Imagined Self)  Who could you be? (Possible Self)  Who are you afraid to be? (Feared Self)  Who do you want to be? (Ideal Self)  What do you need to be who you want to be??

6.  “First and largest nonprofit, non-partisan education and advocacy organization for America's newest generation of veterans.”  Goal to provide help and support to vets.  Community of Veterans: a private, online, social network exclusively for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Cross between a 21st century veteran's hall and Facebook”