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utmost to make sure I get through it. I'm just going to trust my faith and abilities and work to make sure I was ready for this point.' You do, and you come up and you hit your roll and all your buddies are down there and stoked, and you're still alive. It gives you your life back. You know, you feel that pure rush of being lost in the moment. You're on the kind of high that can't ever be touched.
Talk to enough of my friends and a recurring theme emerges — that I derive a deep satisfaction from helping others. P.T.S.D. is funded primarily with private equity (by a local agriculture farmer by the name of Garn Theobold) while equipment is donated by gear companies. Thanks to that generosity, participants pay nothing for gear or other expenses. I want you to succeed. And once you have fun, if you start out in love with this stuff, it can only grow from there. You can't stay in love with this sitting on the couch. You can't stay in love with it when you're your own worst enemy. But if you step out for even a second, you'll find that love, that passion, again. I think the biggest challenge for young, active Veterans, when they return home, is that they feel like they aren't a part of something anymore. This feeling leaves them wondering what they are going to do next. You may go from holding such a high honor and having a sense of purpose, to working a nine to five job and barely getting by. I also believe that raw, uncertain adrenaline is something in which you become accustomed to and ultimately require, in order to feel normal. Nothing will ever compare to the chaos of war, but kayaking gives me that fix. I need to push myself and my boundaries.
I think having help when you get out of the military is massive. Everyone needs help in some way and why would we be any different? The transition back to civilian life is a
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