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-Professional history: air force to corrections officer -being bullied by infantry: "airhead," "zoomie" -Deployment to "Bumf**k, Egypt" after Muslim Brotherhood assassinates Anwar Sadat -Return home, night terrors -Deployment to Philippines, witness to acts of terrorism- more trauma -Molestation at the age of 5- early trauma -Willie Lynch- Caribbean slaveowner who advised his Northern counterparts to better control their "livestock" by pitting them against one another" (today Lynch is widely viewed by historians as a fabrication) -Public torture of slaves as a warning to others- generational trauma -Lola tries to understand why she, as a descendant of Holocaust survivors, has no generational trauma -Izzy relates the repercussions of the poor match between his parents, who met in a displaced persons camp at the end of WWII -Mark relates marrying four women to achieve a sense of normalcy- like Izzy's parents -"Jesus saves, Moses invests" -How Mark decided to attend his first Bullies to Buddies seminar -Volunteering for Izzy's role-play: Mark's first experience of the Golden Rule technique -Mark overcomes his trauma to marry a 5th time -Mark tries to locate similarities between Izzy's mother and wife-Is the word trauma overused? -Izzy remembers Mark attending his seminar in a tuxedo -Mark's work and materials for inmates and kids -Izzy's anecdote about a role-play with an inmate, "Tattoo" -It's only through resilience that trauma can be overcome -The tragedy that befell the Native Americans -Miri shares about her recently deceased brother- a hero who went too soon