Veterans

Ken remembers serving in the U.S. Army in the Gulf War, but he doesn’t like to. “We killed a lot of people,” said Ken. “People think that war is just a cake walk, but its not.”

After leaving the military in 1991, Ken spent more than 20 years walking a trail of heartache with five broken marriages and time in jail.

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