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Ted Engelmann sits at his house in the Washington Park neighborhood. Engelmann served in the Vietman War in 1968.
Veteran documents quest for peace after facing war BY KAILYN LAMB KLAMB@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
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n the living room of his house off Emerson Street, Ted Englemann has two plastic filing bins on top of a short bookshelf. Each is filled with meticulously labeled manila files and handwritten notes. The bins are labeled “OSH 1” and “OSH 2.”
And they represent decades of work, a project Engelmann calls “One Soldier’s Heart,” a book he hopes will give other veterans the chance to heal. Engelmann, a longtime Denver resident and retired teacher, has spent the last several decades documenting and researching war for the book. At age 72 he said that the words have changed,
such as the terms for what we now call Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, but the “emotional wounds of war are pretty much the same.” “By offering the experiences of other veterans and cultures in our war, and saying the two personal conditions I’ve come to know: the Vietnamese don’t hold American veterans responsible to the (damage) we did during the war,” he said.”I’ve been treated better in Vietnam than in my own
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country. Maybe those two items will help make a difference for veterans for their own path to recovery.” In March 1968, when he was 21, Engelmann arrived in Vietnam as an Air Force sergeant. His father, who had fought in World War II and was in the Army Reserve during the Korean War, was also a photographer, which meant SEE HEALING, P7
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