Troops wear uniforms but veterans wear civvies

Troops wear uniforms but veterans wear civvies
Civvies Report
Kathie Costos
January 4, 2014

When servicemen and women show up at events, they have uniforms on to let people know they are among the less than 1% serving this country. When veterans show up at events they have on civvies, civilian clothes looking just like everyone else. They are only 7% of the population but they do extraordinary things everyday.

The Civvies Report is about them. Positive, uplifting stories of their lives and what they do after the uniforms come off.

Over the years it has been an honor to post about them across the country on Wounded Times. It has been a joy to spend most of my time with them in the Orlando area filming their events.

There will be no stories on suffering but there will be plenty of overcoming. There will be no stories on what they are doing without but there will be stories on what they are doing for others. No stories on suicides but stories on healing.

If you think Wounded Times is depressing to read sometimes, I feel the same way but perhaps more because as much as you read there, I am reading even more reports. When it gets to be too much for me, I go back and look at some of the stories I've read and get refueled.

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