Episode #28 - Bombshells and Soft Spots

This week we will speak with Jesse Loren, editor of Bombshells: War Stories and Poems by Women On The Homefront. We'll also speak with Missy Martin, who wrote one of the stories in the book, along with her brother who just returned from Iraq. Clint Van Winkle, author of "Soft Spots: A Marine’s Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder". SOFT SPOTS moves effortlessly back and forth across time and continents as war scenes in reality are intermixed with war ravages remembered. Van Winkle desperately sought help from the Veteran’s Administration, but each trip to a VA facility would be another maddening adventure into bureaucratic red tape and ineptitude. He discovered it was an indifferent system that gives lip service about their concern for veterans but in reality seems to abandon them.