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Great conversation! Thank you.

I am a rural mental health clinician and work with national guard vets all the time. There seems to be huge resentment for being treated as subservient 'less thans'. It complicates and compromises the whole notion of shared vision and cohesive teamwork. Each national guard veteran deserves equal treatment and when it does not occur (which it sounds like is often the case), my experience is they feel owed. There is nothing worse than an environment where equals are made to feel dehumanized, demoralized, or demeaned.

Thanks for listening!

Tom Ayala

Lebanon, Oregon

posted 3 years ago
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