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Please see below for a special opportunity to attend a Veterans Day Forum at the JFK Library, sponored by Bank of America and The Home Base Program.

Challenges and Hope; What's Facing Returning Veterans and Military Families Please join us this Veterans Day for the Annual Home Base Leadership Forum. Date: Veterans Day, Monday, November 11, 2013 Time: 2:00 PM – 5:00PM* Location: John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Smith Hall Columbia Point Boston, MA 02125 This is a free event, click here to Presented with support from *Guests are welcome to arrive at the JFK Library at 1PM to enjoy a complimentary tour of the museum prior to the start of the Leadership Forum at 2PM. Please proceed to the ticket counter and inform staff that you are taking part in the Home Base Leadership Forum. Key Note Speakers: Joseph Robert “Bob” Kerrey, Recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his heroic actions as a U.S. Navy Seal in Vietnam, former U.S. Senator and Governor of Nebraska, former President of the New School University, national leader in education, author. Michael Schoenbaum, PhD, Senior Advisor for Mental Health Services, Epidemiology and Economics in the Office of the Director NIMH. Dr. Schoenbaum is one of the leaders of the Army Study to Assess Risk and Resilience in Servicemembers (Army STARRS) a response to the increase in military suicides. Panel discussion: War stories; keeping the American public engaged after the troops come home. Kevin Cullen, Moderator. A military family member, Boston Globe columnist, Cullen was a member of the 2013 investigative team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal. He is co-author of the New York Times best-seller "Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice." Thomas “T.J.” Brennan, U.S. Marine Corps Veteran; served in Iraq and Afghanistan and has written poignantly and honestly about his own experience with the invisible wounds of war in his blog posts for The New York Times “At War” series. Brennan is Military Affairs reporter for The Daily News in Jacksonville, NC. Phillip Carter, Director of Military, Veterans and Society Program, Center for a New American Security. A U.S. Army and Iraq War veteran, Carter’s research focuses on veterans issues, military manpower issues, and civil-military relations. Mistress Carrie, Afternoon Drive DJ and Music Director of WAAF 97.7/107.3, who was embedded with units from the MA Army National Guard in Iraq (2006) and Afghanistan (2011), and was awarded the Commander’s Award for Public Service, one of the U.S. Army’s highest civilian honors twice. Mistress Carrie is also a military spouse. Wes Moore, U.S. Army Veteran, Afghanistan, Rhodes Scholar, White House Fellow, youth advocate, business leader, New York Times best selling author of The Other Wes Moore. About the Leadership Forum: For the past two years, Home Base has gathered thought leaders in the health care, military, business, policy, and philanthropy community for a Veterans Day discussion designed to illustrate and address the challenges facing our returning veterans and their families as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan come to an end. This is an opportunity to pause, honor and learn more about the men and women – and their families -- who have served and sacrificed for our nation in the military since 9/11. The Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program helps Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and military families heal from the “invisible wounds of war” – post traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury – through clinical care, community education and research. www.homebaseprogram.org

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