“Refugees are folks like us, caught up in wars not of their doing.” Writers Voices talks to Kenneth E. Miller about his book – War Torn – Stories of courage, love and resilience. “The experiences that refugees have when they finally get to wherever they’re heading, actually have as big an impact on their mental health, as what ever they went through in their country of origin….The experience of being a refugee can be extraordinarily stressful….What was most profoundly affecting people was not PTSD; it was the deep grief for what they’d lost.; the people they’d lost, the families, the dreams… the castles in the air,…(the) dreams of things you won’t get to do.”
We’re a country built on immigrants and refugees, that’s who we are, that’s what our identity is. We can maintain that identity, maintain our open hearts and not let fear conquer compassion
Kindness can build on itself as well as violence can.
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