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“To me,” Mr. Meehan said, “the healing power of being able to write through everything, talk through everything, really helped me make order of it.”
“That’s something I know is going to be one of the tragic long-lasting effects of the Fort Hood incident,” he said. “Soldiers will feel they can’t come forward to confess things. And that’s a bad road to be on.”
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