Vision of Resilient Warrior

The vision of the Resilient Warrior Research Project is to learn from the exposure and experience of war and combat in order to live well when faced with life's most challenging circumstances.  Resilient Warrior is dedicated to the sons and daughters of American freedom who have fought our nation's wars, to their families who kept the Blue Star hung proudly, and for those who grieve as Gold Star families.  I am personally committed to the ideal set forth in President Lincoln's Second inaugural address:

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finishing the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Furthermore, we can learn from the stress of war in order to help service and family members cope positively with the effects of war and the daily stress of life in order to be prepared for future wars.  During WWII two military researchers observed:

The stress of war tries men [sic] as no other test that they have encountered in civilized life. Like a cruel experiment it exposes the underlying physiological and psychological mechanisms of the human being. Cruel, destructive and wasteful though such an experiment may be, exceedingly valuable lessons can be learned from it regarding the methods by which men [sic] adapt themselves to all forms of stress, either in war or in peace.

Men Under Stress
By: Roy Grinker and John Spiegel
1945 WWII Research Classic