Amazes me how in today’s world (compared to my father or grandfather) there are so many different avenues for veterans to help each other to try to peace – PB/TK
Maryland Man Helps Other Wounded War Veterans Find Peace and Healing Through Fly Fishing – By Cathy Free / May 25 2017
While recovering from prostate cancer surgery at the Walter Reed National Military Center in 2005, Ed Nicholson’s thoughts kept returning to his first time fly-fishing on Idaho’s Snake River during a break in his military training for the Navy.
On that day in 1982, the skies were blue, the river was clear, and except for the whisper of the wind and the call of geese flying overhead, all was silent – the perfect day to put on a pair of waders, forget about the rest of the world and cast a fly rod.
At the hospital, as Nicholson observed distraught younger veterans being comforted by family members after losing limbs in Iraq, it occurred to him that perhaps they could also find peace and a sense of purpose while fishing on a river.
“I thought, ‘I’d really like to take some of them fly fishing,'” Nicholson, now 75 and living in Port Tobacco, Maryland, tells PEOPLE. “I didn’t have big plans – just an outing or two. But pretty soon, I saw the potential and realized it would be much bigger than that.”
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