Sure. I'm on the board of directors for an art foundation named for the soldier, in fact, who rode in my vehicle and was killed by an IED, the David J. Drakulich Art Foundation. The purpose of the foundation is to offer art as a medium for military-connected community, to reassimilate, reintegrate, and intentionally shape the narrative for warriors coming back.
Too often you're cast into one of two modes. You're a hero or you're broken, and maybe both of those are true at the same time. Again, I'll refer to Mark's circumstance. Just because his disability makes him incompatible for military service, that does not make him incompatible for continued service in his community.
Art is a way to do that as a therapeutic mode. Soldiers, airmen, and marines don't have to be artists. There are tactile modes. We do combat papermaking, in which we turn uniforms into paper. It's a way to draw a community in, and it's a way for a community to take ownership of their veterans. It provides a good safe medium for veterans, regardless of their political stance or their disposition towards the war. It's a common medium and it's a safe place for a community to recapture their veterans at a personal level.