Carl Jozaitis proves it’s never too late. This Vietnam War veteran went through Warrior PATHH more than 40 years after returning home.
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I always drew. If you put a pencil on a piece of paper in front of me, I would draw something.
I was 22 years old, and I got my draft notice. And for the next 18 years, I took bombs apart for a living.
When I left Vietnam, other people tell you that, you know, you’re Jositis—you’re just not right right now. You don’t feel it. But other people will see you’re changed, or you’re a little different.
At eighty-three years old, Carl, a Vietnam vet who did three tours of combat in Vietnam, called us and said he needed help.
I retired from the Marine Corps in my early 40s, and now I was going into a program in my 80s.
Boulder Crest gives you unity within a group. We learn to live with our limps and our bruises and our cuts, and that doesn’t make them go away—we just learn to live with them.
Building this movement that we’re engaged in to proliferate these notions of Posttraumatic Growth in a number of ways… a way is going to take a long time.
Vietnam is over 50 years ago. I’m here. I went through this program. It did me some good.
Fifty years from now, it will still be a valuable, valid program for our veterans.
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