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I Love No Power Point Presentation

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Here . Just actors and a stage deployed

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five times . See Gold the

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first two times I came back , I was

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single after that I was engaged or

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married the first time I came back . So

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re entry is a play about preparing for

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and returning from deployment . All of

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the dialogue in the play came directly

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from interviews that me and my writing

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partner , Emily Ackerman conducted , we

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interviewed service members coming back

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from deployment , getting ready to

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deploy and ask them one simple question .

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What is it like to go from being

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downrange to standing in line at the

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grocery store ? What is it like to

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reintegrate into your family's , into

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your community , into your country ? My

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hope is that they see the characters in

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the play and say , I recognize that I'm

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going through that , yep , I've seen

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that and then they know that they're

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not alone and that's the single most

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important messages . You're not alone .

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It's very reassuring when you hear

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their voice rather than someone else

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calling to tell you about your son . Oh

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gosh , that would be terrifying . It

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struck a nerve definitely dead . And it

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made me more , you know prone to see

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other people on how they react to other

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things . And you know , it actually

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made me see things that I do myself .

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And then I also like the fact that it

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wasn't death by PowerPoint , it was

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more , it was more entertaining . And

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then at the same time it was filled

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with a bunch of information . This play

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is now touring military bases and

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hospitals , opening a better dialogue

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for deployment , health in Bill Safe

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Germany . I'm Army Staff Sergeant Jose

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Ibarra .