"The Making and Un-making of a Marine"

by Lawrence Winters

About Larry Winters:

Photo: Lauren Thomas

Lawrence J. Winters BPS, LMHC Senior Clinical Group Psychotherapist and Coordinator of Veterans Treatment at Four Winds Hospital 800 Cross River Road, Katonah, NY 10536 914-763-8151 800-528-6624 Ext 2426. If you know of a veteran, veterans family including children or anyone who might need for excellent mental health care please make contact.

Special Announcements:

Larry Winters has been named to run the FOUR WINDS HOSPITAL Veteran Services Program which will "Reach Out to Our Veterans and Their Families to Assist in the Re-entry Process and All That it Involves...." [more information (PDF)]

Robert McNamara dead at 93:

Robert Strange McNamara (June 9, 1916 – July 6, 2009) served as Defense Secretary for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson from 1961 to 1968. He is considered the primary architect of the Vietnam War.

Robert McNamara Trilogy

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara at the Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, DC, November 22, 1967
PD This image is in the public domain

In memory of my friend, the author Richard Boes (February 21, 2009)
Nam Brother Waiting at the Station by Larry Winters

Please remember that between January 21 and April 8, 1968 The Battle of Khe Sanh took place. It took 41 one years for it to be mentioned with the respect that it has deserved. This came in President Obama inaugural address.

Please read (and listen to) The Khe Sanh Address (including audio of the author reading the address)

Videos of Michael Enright's film "John's Story"
with commentary by Larry Winters

A veteran, whether active duty, retired, national guard or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The United States of America" for an amount of "up to and including my life."
That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.
Author Unknown

Born and raised in New Paltz, NY, Larry Winters entered the United States Marine Corps after high school and served in Vietnam 1969-1970. Twenty-five years later, by then a licensed mental health counselor at Four Winds Hospital in Katonah, NY, the veteran returned to Vietnam with other heath care professionals to study Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the Vietnamese people and to make peace with his past. Larry is a widely published poet, men's group leader and group psychotherapist.

He has published his book titled "The Making and Un-making of a Marine".

Special Announcements:

Larry Winters has recently won favorable support from the Montrose Veterans Affairs Hospital in Peekskill, N.Y. After speaking at the hospital on two separate occasions where he addressed the staff, veterans, and the community on issues such as PTSD and the role of society in its healing, Larry was approached by a senior administrator and sold 80 books to the VA for their staff. He remains deeply appreciative that the VA holds strong interest in the voice of a veteran who's been on both sides of war, both as a soldier and a healer. Stay tuned to Larry's homepage for more announcements as he continues to garner support from the VA. You can help share his story by contacting your local VA hospital at www.va.gov and ask them to carry The Making and Un-Making of a Marine for their staff and the veterans they care for.

Email:	larry@makingandunmaking.com
Blog:	makingandunmaking.blogspot.com

	Larry is a member of the
	Millrock Writers Collective

Writings:

Videos Page

"Confession" More of Larry's Poetry

Book:

"The Making and Un-making of a Marine" is now available
"It turns out that this book is not only for men, or veterans; I have gotten great feedback from women readers"

Order Larry Winters' new book
from the Millrock Writers Collective

Poetry:

McNamara Trilogy
War Haiku
I Killed for You (duet)
Good Night, Sweetheart
Nam Brother Waiting at the Station
Back Home
(including audio of selected reading by the author)

Prose & commentary

Where are all those peace symbols... [May 19, 2009]
Truth and Citizenship [April 11, 2009]
Good-Hearted People [March 22, 2009]
Breaking the Trance of Denial [February 21, 2009]
Veterans Day Parade 2008   [September 26, 2008]
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder   [September 10, 2008]
The Third War   [July 20, 2008]
Memorial Day 2008   [May 25, 2008]
So You Support the Troops and Not the War [January 8, 2008]
Penumbra, A Holiday Story  [December 14, 2007]
Telling the Truth about War [December 13, 2007]
Regarding: "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" [December 9, 2007]
Oath Taker and Oath Breaker [October 27, 2007]
No Roads Lead to Nome [July 10, 2007]
Returning from Soldier's Heart Retreat [June 21, 2007]
Cindy Sheehan is not the only one folding [June 1, 2007]
Memorial Day 2007
An Accounting [May 28, 2007]
This I Believe [May 10, 2007]
Winning the War Within by Jude Treder-Wolff
The Khe Sanh Address (including audio of the author reading the address)
Supporting the Troops
Letter to the Editor, (What do we care about?)

On Vietnam
The Day after Veterans Day

Other Writings, Music and works by other authors I think you might find interesting.

2009 Schedule:

2009 Month: J F M A M J J A S O N D

June 26 -- 7 PM to 9 PM
ASPire Network Meeting
Topic: "Breaking the Trance of Denial"
Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy, 250 West 57th Street Suite 501, New York, NY

2009 Month: J F M A M J J A S O N D

February 28-29
Nothing Means Nothing performance
at the Unison Arts & Learning Center, New Paltz, NY

March 7
Nothing Means Nothing performance
at the Four Winds Hospital
Conference Center, Katonah, NY , New Paltz, NY

March 26-27
Stepping Beyond the Wounds
ASGPP Conference
St. Louis, MO

April 11
Book signing & workshop
at the Hudson Valley Guild & Book Trader, Saugerties, NY

2009 Month: J F M A M J J A S O N D

Schedule 2008:

2008 Month: J F M A M J J A S O N D

January 23
Katonah Study Group for Integrative Medicine
The Soul of a Soldier,
Katonah, NY

January 27
Millrock Writers Collective Annual Holiday Reading Unison, New Paltz, NY
(postponed from Dec 16)

January 30
January Jumps! Lifetime Learning Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

April 10-14
ASGPP Conference
San Antonio, TX

April 11
Institute for Disaster Mental Health, SUNY, New Paltz, NY

May 30
(Memorial Day)
Nothing Means Nothing performance
at the Unison Arts & Learning Center ,New Paltz, NY

September 3
Speaking on
www.InternetVoicesRadio.com

September 17
Speaking on
www.InternetVoicesRadio.com

Monday, October 6
"Special Guest" at the Colony Café , Woodstock, NY 7pm

October16--17
"Needs of Returning Veterans" (a gathering of chaplains and mental health professional) at Intersections International.New York

October 29
"PTSD is not an Illness" as a coordinator of Veterans Treatment at Four Winds Hospital in Katonah NY for Westchester Count Veterans Service Agency.

November 11
"How to Approach Veterans When they Return" at Intersections International. New York

December 3, 10:00 AM.
"The Trance of Turning Away from War and its Aftermath" at Lifetime Learning Institute (LLI), SUNY, New Paltz, NY

2008 Month: J F M A M J J A S O N D

May 30 is Memorial Day
and November 11 is Veterans Day

but we should be grateful to our veterans and service men and women every day of the year. So call someone you know who served and say "Thank You!"

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The Play:

"Nothing Means Nothing"
by Larry Winters
was last performed
March 7
Four Winds Hospital
Conference Center, Katonah, NY