Crafting to heal

[The Patriot]

“Once (soldiers) are exposed to war or that kind of violence on that scale, I think it changes you in a way,” said Ehren Tool, Marine Corps veteran. “Like the guy who went to war isn’t the same person that comes back.” In 1941 Brig. Gen. Frederick Osborn, U.S. Army retired, lead the committee on recreation and community service. Initially, the program was designed to provide activities for soldiers in barracks, but after Pearl Harbor, the program changed. Walter Reed Hospital began using arts and crafts to help the wounded become rehabilitated. The Army and Red Cross saw therapeutic results within the soldiers when using crafts as a means to heal.


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