The COMPASS Podcast

The Long Journey Home with Steve Gunn


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Scott and Glen welcome Steve Gunn, an army veteran who served as a medic in the Ripcord campaign, the last major confrontation between US and North Vietnamese forces in the war. Steve discusses his experiences as a medic in the war zone,  his personal struggle of veteran homecoming, and what it meant to eventually begin a journey of personal healing after “thirty years of stuffing” his war experiences.  He articulates the role tears played in claiming and tending inner wounds that he hadn’t realized he was carrying.  He describes  the importance of two journeys back to Vietnam with fellow veterans, and what he discovered.

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