restoring our warriors & communities

Reconciliation Journeys

Vietnam mountain pathEd Tick and Kate Dahlstedt have been leading Warrior Study and Reconciliation Journeys since 2000. They visit Vietnam, Greece, and the U.S. to study warrior traditions, battlefields, monuments, and sites of personal significance to veterans.

For more information about our journeys, click the links below, or contact us at info@soldiersheart.net or call us at 518-274-0501, X10.

Viet Nam

Viet Nam is a Buddhist country. Its breathtaking mountain views and lush green foliage are a soothing balm as we ride between cities, villages and hamlets. We meet gentle Vietnamese people—teachers, farmers, monks, village elders, college students, shopkeepers, street children and many more. We attend ceremonies conducted in our honor at Buddhist temples and have...

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Greece

Ed and Kate have led 20 trips to Greece and have established a vital network of Greek friends and colleagues there. On Soldier's Heart journeys to Greece, we visit sacred healing sites and warrior temples. We visit and share learning and growth activities and symposia with Greek and international friends. We work with Greek artists...

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Domestic Pilgrimages

We visit scenes of bravery, tragedy, compassion, and remembrance in the United States. Revolutionary and Civil War battlefields, and monuments from all the wars, are among the places we visit.   Photo credit: "Weary soldiers at the Grant Memorial" by Dendroica cerulea licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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