Seasoned milspouse and VSP guest writer Heather Barnhill shares her personally curated and inspiring music playlist sure to give your mental health a kickstart during PCS season.
Family Life Chaplain and VSP guest writer Chaplain (MAJ) Lisa Northway shares her experiences as an active duty soldier and counselor of isolated military families to emphasize the importance of finding a spiritual Battle Buddy to thrive in life.
VSP guest writer and comedian-in-the-making, milspouse Heather Barnhill takes both an entertaining and useful approach in this PCS survival guide for the resourceful military spouse.
VSP’s Audra Edwards reveals what she describes as the “PCS Valley of Blah,” a lesser known, transitional time some milspouses experience in the initial weeks after a military move.
(Bonus 15/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett talks about how their lives were changed when her husband, Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., received the Medal of Honor in this final BONUS Stories We Tell: Jeannie Puckett installment from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(14/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett reflects on gratitude as she and her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., navigate through his diagnosis of Parkinson’s in this fourteenth of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(13/14) This poem of grief was written by Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett the year after she and her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., lost their daughter, Jean, to cancer in this thirteenth of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(12/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett describes the life events that followed after she and her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., made the decision to seek change and move back to Georgia in this twelfth of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(11/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett details retirement life after her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., shifts his family to civilian life and its unexpected stressors in this eleventh of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(10/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett discusses the difficulties she and her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., faced in trying to find the best schools for their military children in this tenth of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(9/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett explains the disconnection that so often exists between the reality of war and public perception and how military families can often feel alone because of it when her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., came home from Vietnam in this ninth of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(8/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett shows the heartbreaking reality of sending service members off to war when her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., left for Vietnam in this eighth of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(7/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett shares the adventures the military can bring when she and her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., take their children “das zelton” (camping) in this seventh of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(6/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett lets us look into the intimate scenes of military homecomings when her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., would greet their children in this sixth of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(5/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett shares an unexpected experience she and her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., had in the company of a “sophisticated” Columbian couple in this fifth of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(4/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett talks pregnancy, homesickness, and meaningful Christmas oranges when the Army sent her and her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., to Puerto Rico in this fourth of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(3/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett describes how she and her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., lived in conditions empty of furnishings but not of love in their first home as a military couple in this third of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
(2/14) Veteran spouse Jeannie Puckett describes how her husband, Medal of Honor Recipient and Korean and Vietnam War Hero, COL (RET.) Ralph Puckett Jr., proposed and gave new meaning to the “us” in U.S. military life in this second of fourteen Stories We Tell installments from Veteran’s Spouse Project.
Veterans Spouse Project (VSP) is the only nonprofit arts organization in the nation working to give voice to the experiences of military spouses through theatre and expressive arts. Learn more about how to share, connect, listen and create with us in your community.
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