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Betsy Mulligan-Dague

March 25, 2018 by johnnoltner

Betsy Mulligan-Dague runs the Jeanette Rankin Peace Center in Missoula, Montana. She is also a Harley Davidson rider, a boxer, and an inventor. She believes it is important to explore different perspectives. Together, with Dan Gallagher, they found a way to bridge the divide that can exist between veterans and peace activists. “We have things that bind us together that we can fall back on when we start talking politics, or something else where we diverge in opinion.” We can only […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: community, division, learning, Missoula, montana, veteran, vietnam, war

Dan Gallagher

March 7, 2018 by johnnoltner

Dan Gallagher served in the U.S. Army in Vietnam from 1966 to 1967 and when he returned home, he was met with protests and derision. At first, he couldn’t feel proud of what he had done, or even talk about it, but as time passed, Dan found it useful to discuss his experience. When people thank him for sharing his story, he is only half joking when he replies, “No, thank you, because you gave me a free therapy session.” […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: activism, army, common ground, courage, Missoula, montana, protest, relationship, veteran, vietnam, war

Ray Padre Johnson

February 26, 2018 by johnnoltner

Ray Padre Johnson served as a medic in the Vietnam War. He worked as a cowboy on ranches in Wyoming’s Wapiti Valley, and discovered his love of painting. He spent a dozen years traveling the world, living in 159 countries, where he ate with people, danced with them, and got to know them. Padre painted the portraits of more than 500 people from that experience and assembled them into a book called Journeys with the Global Family. “Our responsibility is to […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: cody, friendship, perspective, story, veteran, wyoming

Heather Ehle

August 3, 2017 by johnnoltner

Heather Ehle is executive director of Project Sanctuary, a program designed to help military families heal. With no military background herself, Heather saw families struggling to readjust to civilian life after deployments. She now coordinates retreats, centered in Colorado, to reconnect families and give them support to thrive. Heather describes herself as politically agnostic, which she defines as “having been to Washington one too many times.” “I believe that everybody innately knows what they need in order to be happy and […]

Categories: Podcast • Tags: Colorado, counselor, family, granby, heal, hope, listening, veteran

Phillip Schladweiler

May 30, 2016 by johnnoltner

Phillip Schladweiler is a military veteran who served two tours in Iraq. On February 22, 2006…6 years to the day of his enlistment…he was wounded in an IED attack and lost the vision in his right eye. Now an art student, Phillip has photographed the shrapnel that was removed from his body (the doctors saved it for him) as part of his journey of healing himself and others. I don’t know, peace to me means safety and sacrifice. This is […]

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A Peace of My Mind

Building community and bridging divides through portraits and personal stories.

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Betsy Mulligan-Dague

Dan Gallagher

Ray Padre Johnson

Heather Ehle

Phillip Schladweiler