Liz Estabrooks

A Tale of three million women Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs I am a U.S. Army veteran. Every year I feel angst and conflict about Veterans Day. Pride, seated beside angst. This year I thought it would be different because I’m in Italy, far from the U.S. But I was wrong. I cannot run from the conflicting feelings inside of me. Miles cannot separate me from the reality of being a woman who is a veteran of the U.S. military. Years of therapy have not made the annual angst change.  The...

We\don’t leave because we don’t love you, we leave because we finally love ourselves and can no longer bear the reality of being hurt by...