Episode 526: Lets listen to vets stories-PAULA CAPLAN (2011) WHEN JOHNNY & JANE COME MARCHING HOME
This week\u2019s conversation recorded in 2011 is both timely and untimely. Timely - as we exit from Afghanistan - because in her book When Johnny and Jane Come Marching Home, Paula Caplan asks why it\u2019s a mental illness to be devastated by war and urges us to connect with veterans and listen to their stories, one-on-one. And untimely, because Paula died of cancer July 21st. She was both one of the warmest, most generous people I\u2019ve known, and at the same time, a consistently fierce and passionate advocate for justice. Three words I believe often motivated Paula: \u201cIt\u2019s not fair.\u201d And those three words have seldom felt more true.\xa0