AUGUSTA — Dr. John Wesley Fisher will be the keynote speaker at the Maine Military and Community Network Conference, Bringing Veterans, Military Families, and Support Services Together, which will take place on Thursday, July 20.
The conference is offered by the Lewiston-Auburn MMCN and several sponsors.
Fisher is an author and Vietnam combat veteran who has been researching and practicing natural methods for post-war reconciliation. He was a champion surfer by the age of 20, and never anticipated serving in the military, yet he was drafted and sent to Vietnam. One year later, he returned appalled, angry and stripped of his own identity. He knew he was different after combat.
Fisher began to travel and surf and believed that storytelling was an important piece of healing. He began to unburden himself by way of novel-writing. All of his books share the difficulties veterans experience and the differences in the ways that Eastern and Western cultures treat returning participants after they have served in combat.
Much of his unique approach to healing was developed by revisiting Vietnam. Not only was he welcomed back to his former war zone, but he was also honored despite his having fought on the opposing side of the conflict. These former rivals do not experience the post-war ramifications that their American counterparts do.
FMI, register: www.cvent.com/d/25qphj, www.JohnWesleyFisher.com
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