By starting Vets Town Hall, Junger said, he hopes to reinforce the connection between veterans and their communities. “We are of one nation and we’re doing this together, and the people that actually pulled the triggers were sent there by us.”

…[Fellow board member Jon] Turner said storytelling plays a central role in veterans’ events because many veterans experience isolation after leaving the service. Many communities don’t include a lot of people with military experience, and veterans can have difficulty finding an outlet to process what they went through.

At a Vets Town Hall, “you’re with your brother again, and so storytelling and being able to continue to process the experience, whether it’s good or bad, or lighthearted or tragic, is something that just continues to happen,” Turner said of the events.

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