I think that would be very, very powerful, because Memorial Day is a day to remember.
Julie Sands, of the Be Amazing Project, interviewed by LAist.
Sand has led Memorial Day commemorations for 14 consecutive years at the Mexican American All Wars Memorial at Cinco Puntos in Boyle Heights.
growing up with a parent who has PTSD, because it affects generations, and it affects your home life. It makes you grow up fast. It makes you aware of political situations. There is fear and uncertainty, and you have to learn how to manage all of those feelings and emotions and still make it through life yourself.
The initial layer of transmutation of delving inward:
to write that book was like getting a knife and slicing my heart open and letting it bleed. It was extremely painful, extremely difficult, extremely emotional, but I did it because I knew I could help other people.
The following layer of transmutation by seeking others out:
I was able to connect with family members and children and daughters of fathers of war and begin to help them to heal as well, and to teach them the skills on how to heal from their childhood when they had a parent with PTSD.
My father didn’t have a choice. He went to war, he was drafted, he came back with PTSD, and he wasn’t able to resume a normal life. So I wanted to represent my father,
So I will want to represent my grandfather, and his children.
washing dishes: a father’s glimpses 