7-8 SS Hunts for Healing

 For injured soldiers returning stateside from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the first sight they often see are the walls of an intensive care unit. With multiple tubes running from IV poles into their arms, with monitors beeping in the background, with unfamiliar noises and faces, their new surroundings are only the beginning of a new life; a new reality. So, where do they go from here?

With loss of limbs, vision or hearing, with imbedded shrapnel and burns to the flesh, with head trauma and more, the picture seems bleak and often a sense of hopelessness engulfs the human spirit. How then do they pick up the pieces and start over?

This is where Hunts for Healing offers a stepping stone to aid in the transition of these selfless heroes back into their neighborhoods and communities. Offering respite from a clinical environment, challenging outdoor activities and social interaction provide the friendship, acceptance and encouragement our wounded warriors need. The goal is to help them take those positive steps towards a successful future! Mindi Picotti from Hunts for Healing says the great outdoors makes an immeasurable contribution: “You can not go outside and  be in the woods and listen to the woods wake up in the morning, and not feel something. We take them hunting, fishing, everything birds, pheasant, chuckar, quail, we throw that in between deer hunting, we do all kinds of shotgun, black powder.”