Posted on Aug 19, 2020
Warriors for Life (WFL) Thursday - "MACH DU 'You Do It'..."
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Come join Warriors for Life (WFL) Virtual Group Support TONIGHT sponsored by Victory for Veterans (VFV) and hosted by Veteran SSG Derrick Iozzio for another great night of peer-to-peer support. WFL - Where "Sharing is Caring!"
Invite a Friend, tell a friend, and share with your friends!
Get connected with Veterans, Service Members, First Responders, and Caretakers every Thursday Night!
TONIGHT's Topic: "MACH DU (You Do It)"
Dial-in TONIGHT with your host Veteran SSG Derrick Iozzio. Help is sometimes right around the corner.
Warriors for Life (WFL) – Thursday (TONIGHT), 20 August 2020 at 4:30 PM PT, 5:30 PM MT, 6:30 PM CT, and 7:30 PM ET
Dial in 5-10 minutes early to test your communications!
Veteran SSG Derrick Iozzio will be the host TONIGHT and is inviting you to a RingCentral meeting.
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Thanks,
Derrick Iozzio, MHPS
"Respect Always - Warriors for Life!"
Come join Warriors for Life (WFL) Virtual Group Support TONIGHT sponsored by Victory for Veterans (VFV) and hosted by Veteran SSG Derrick Iozzio for another great night of peer-to-peer support. WFL - Where "Sharing is Caring!"
Invite a Friend, tell a friend, and share with your friends!
Get connected with Veterans, Service Members, First Responders, and Caretakers every Thursday Night!
TONIGHT's Topic: "MACH DU (You Do It)"
Dial-in TONIGHT with your host Veteran SSG Derrick Iozzio. Help is sometimes right around the corner.
Warriors for Life (WFL) – Thursday (TONIGHT), 20 August 2020 at 4:30 PM PT, 5:30 PM MT, 6:30 PM CT, and 7:30 PM ET
Dial in 5-10 minutes early to test your communications!
Veteran SSG Derrick Iozzio will be the host TONIGHT and is inviting you to a RingCentral meeting.
Join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://meetings.ringcentral.com/j/ [login to see]
Or iPhone one-tap (US Toll):
+ [login to see] ,, [login to see] #
Or Telephone: Dial:
+ [login to see] (US Toll)
Meeting ID: [login to see]
Thanks,
Derrick Iozzio, MHPS
"Respect Always - Warriors for Life!"
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Colonel,
Trying to recapture the magic of the bonhomie that encapsulated my life in the military is existentially impossible but not psychologically for even the most distant memories of my comrades reemerges spontaneously like the crocuses in a well watered, spring garden. My yearning for similar companionship in civilian life remains frustrated even when I make half-hearted attempts to draw emotional sustenance from my academic milieu. But the fellowship I find on campus might be cognitively stimulating, it fails to provide me with the esprit de core that was so crucial to surviving the precarious (deadly) circumstances n Vietnam. To bond with others is neurologically intrinsic to Homo sapiens even though it might be distorted at times by suicide, schizophrenia, dementia like Alzheimer's disease, psychopathy and a major depressive episode. I think Descartes was wrong: "I long for attachment therefore I am." And this need for connection is nowhere stronger than in a rifle platoon in the midst of war. Thus, the crucible of forming cohesive links is intensified amongst young men in peril and can never be exactly duplicated in a benign environment where veterans can maintain a "normal" lifestyle including loving family connections.
Thank you,
SPC Benjamin
Trying to recapture the magic of the bonhomie that encapsulated my life in the military is existentially impossible but not psychologically for even the most distant memories of my comrades reemerges spontaneously like the crocuses in a well watered, spring garden. My yearning for similar companionship in civilian life remains frustrated even when I make half-hearted attempts to draw emotional sustenance from my academic milieu. But the fellowship I find on campus might be cognitively stimulating, it fails to provide me with the esprit de core that was so crucial to surviving the precarious (deadly) circumstances n Vietnam. To bond with others is neurologically intrinsic to Homo sapiens even though it might be distorted at times by suicide, schizophrenia, dementia like Alzheimer's disease, psychopathy and a major depressive episode. I think Descartes was wrong: "I long for attachment therefore I am." And this need for connection is nowhere stronger than in a rifle platoon in the midst of war. Thus, the crucible of forming cohesive links is intensified amongst young men in peril and can never be exactly duplicated in a benign environment where veterans can maintain a "normal" lifestyle including loving family connections.
Thank you,
SPC Benjamin
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LTC Elaine Gullotta
Hi Benjamin,
Yes, we all need connection to others. Are you making connection with other veterans besides here on Rallypoint? There are so many veteran organizations you could join to find the camaraderie you seek.
Yes, we all need connection to others. Are you making connection with other veterans besides here on Rallypoint? There are so many veteran organizations you could join to find the camaraderie you seek.
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SPC Benjamin Hartog
Major,
I was a member of a Vietnam rap group in the late 1980s that approximated the tight camaraderie I shared with the men in my squad. Ironically, I am the only survivor of that rap group. Most of the veterans in the group died in their early sixties including one, Diego, who committed suicide in my home where I found him draped over a computer desk that was piled high with cocaine and underneath his legs lay a packet of black tar heroine. Vietnam implanted a Augustinian perspective in me that all persons are inherently valuable and worthy of respect including the dead, like Diego, who I eulogized posthumously even though I was incensed over the futility of his untimely, lonely and sordid death. But my animosity was gratuities with no specific object. My angst was misplaced, however, and I realized that Diego hoodwinked me by depriving me of his companionship which closely resembled my relationships in Vietnam insofar as they were shortlived and aborted. I have imaginatively and meticulously reconstructed the associations I forged in Vietnam but I am a victim of predestination who like a protagonist in a Greek tragedy is doomed to suffer a fate of ultimate disaster. But as long as I am alive I can indefinitely renew my elegiac youth in the Army and look on my time in the 9th Division as one epic, singular adventure that remains inside me an uncauterized wound.
Thank you Major Gullotta
I was a member of a Vietnam rap group in the late 1980s that approximated the tight camaraderie I shared with the men in my squad. Ironically, I am the only survivor of that rap group. Most of the veterans in the group died in their early sixties including one, Diego, who committed suicide in my home where I found him draped over a computer desk that was piled high with cocaine and underneath his legs lay a packet of black tar heroine. Vietnam implanted a Augustinian perspective in me that all persons are inherently valuable and worthy of respect including the dead, like Diego, who I eulogized posthumously even though I was incensed over the futility of his untimely, lonely and sordid death. But my animosity was gratuities with no specific object. My angst was misplaced, however, and I realized that Diego hoodwinked me by depriving me of his companionship which closely resembled my relationships in Vietnam insofar as they were shortlived and aborted. I have imaginatively and meticulously reconstructed the associations I forged in Vietnam but I am a victim of predestination who like a protagonist in a Greek tragedy is doomed to suffer a fate of ultimate disaster. But as long as I am alive I can indefinitely renew my elegiac youth in the Army and look on my time in the 9th Division as one epic, singular adventure that remains inside me an uncauterized wound.
Thank you Major Gullotta
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SPC Nancy Greene
Sounds like a really meaningful topic SSG Derrick Iozzio ! I am going to try to ‘dial in’; however, I am playing ‘nurse’ to my 92 year old mom who is recovering from hip replacement.
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SSG Derrick Iozzio
My best to you and your mom. As a caretaker, I am sure you know that self care is important. I hope you will be able to join us!
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