Local Combat Vets to Share Personal Stories at Veterans Day Forum

BARNSTABLE – A first-of-its-kind town hall style event is coming to Barnstable Town Hall on Veterans Day.

Combat veterans will share their stories and will talk about how war changed them as human beings. Each veteran will speak for about 10 minutes.

The event is being organized by the Cape and Islands Veterans Outreach Center.

“The intent is that the community share the experience of what combat does to people,” said Gina Giambusso, the Executive Director of the Cape and Islands Veterans Outreach Center. “Combat can never really be forgotten. It continues to live on inside of them.”

“Our struggle as veterans services providers is to help them cope so that they can reintegrate successfully into the communities for which they have served,” Giambusso added.

About a dozen local veterans have already committed to speaking at the forum. By design, it will not be an interactive event with audience participation, because organizers say they want the personal experiences of the speakers to be the center of the discussion.

“We feel it’s a very meaningful way to observe Veterans Day,” Giambusso said.

The event is free and open to the public and is scheduled for 10 a.m. on November 11 at Barnstable Town Hall.

The concept for the town hall session was hatched by author Sebastian Junger and Massachusetts Congressman Seth Moulton, a combat veteran himself.

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