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“Obviously the pandemic still hovered over all of us,” Burkey said. “But we just felt like it was better to at least go ahead and open and be able to see people via telehealth, or what other ways that we needed to meet their needs.”
Burkey said the past year has been an experiment in engaging prospective clients through nontraditional methods.
“So we tried to link arms with the community as best as we could with this different grand opening that we had. But I m thrilled we opened back in August but yes, it has been difficult as it has been for everyone.”
A unique project aimed at increasing readiness to the Fort Meade community has moved from concept to reality. The Fort Meade Resiliency Services kiosk, a one-stop way to find services associated with resiliency at Fort Meade and the surrounding community, is now up and running in a website format.
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The Israeli television series “Valley of Tears,” now available on HBO, tells the story of the Yom Kippur War from the perspective of Israelis who fought it, and it’s prompting a national conversation about one of the most devastating chapters in the country’s history - both among those too young to remember it and the generation who paid the price of its battles and traumatic aftermath. The series is also credited with highlighting how deeply post-traumatic stress disorder permeates so many lives here, particularly among those who have served in combat.
In Israel, the broadcast of each episode was followed by a studio discussion with veterans. A dam burst open: former soldiers shared war stories, often opening up for the first time in their lives about them; their children and grandchildren asked to hear more, anxious to understand episodes that in some cases shaped their own childhoods.
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