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PBS NewsHour: Turning uniforms into paper as artistic therapy

Posted on May 2, 2012

The Combat Paper Project began in 2007, when a veteran of the Iraq war, “trying to make sense of his experience, cut up his uniform to make paper from its fibers,” Gwen Ifill reports. Now, there is a permanent workshop in New Jersey, providing a “therapeutic and artistic outlet” to veterans “hoping to reconcile the good and bad of lives spent at war.” Continue reading →

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