“A Story Worth Telling”: Sharing Stories and Impacting Lives in the Veterans’ Book Group Project at Fort Benning by Paige Paquette, with MAJ Adam Anderson, SGT La Toya Burnette, SGT JeQuetta Canady, Specialist E4 Brandon Carr, SGT First Class Nathaniel Coakley, Ret., and Staff Sergeant Yolanda Teamer
In the fall of 2014, Troy University partnered with the Alabama Humanities Foundation, working in conjunction with the Maine Humanities Council, to provide a veterans’ reading group to wounded warriors at the Warrior Transition Battalion at Fort Benning, GA. The program, Story Swap: Literature and the Veteran Experience, consisted of five, ten-week sessions. During weekly…