Need help getting started?

If you need help getting started writing your battle story, consider these standard writing prompts used in newspapers, modified for the military:

• Where: Name each location

• When: Complete a timeline by including the dates you were in this location.

• Who: Name as many people as you remember at this location, whether in your platoon, companies, or favorite beer garden. Include the lost and wounded, as their family members who may contact you for information.

• What: Describe the events, your job description, anything unique.

• How: Describe transportation to and from and around that history.

I invite you to start or continue your own healing purpose by contributing your story. It will be your chapter in the history of our country.