Combatting Veteran Suicide One Song – One Story at a time – Dan Johnson

This post and it’s all too necessary message needs to be shared and shared again and again. Open your eyes and your hearts. Veteran Suicide is not just a newspaper headline.

Writing and Music

As a staff writer for Buddy Magazine, I get lots of Press Releases about new projects from music artists. But, when the Press Release came across my desk for this project, I knew I had to try and find a bigger platform to showcase it. To say it touched my heart is putting it mildly. I was blown away by the depth and the passion Texas songwriter, Dan Johnson, put into the HemingwayProject. Let me tell you a little about it.

Imagine you are a soldier returning home from Afghanistan or Syria or some other war-torn country. Maybe limbs are missing, or your body is scarred in some other way. Or perhaps deep in the recesses of your mind, thoughts and emotions are twisted with guilt.

At what point do you decide you have nothing more to offer and the world has nothing left to hold you?

Now…

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