Jenny Pacanowski burst with love of country when the planes hit, and that day awoke in her a new era of her life filled with compassion and rage.
Jenny Pacanowski
Jenny Pacanowski is a poet, combat veteran, and public speaker. While deployed to Iraq with the Army, Pacanowski was a medic and provided medical support for convoys with the Marines, Air Force, and Army. She also did shifts in the Navy medical hospital. In Germany, she was part of a medical evacuation company. Pacanowski is a 2017 War Horse fellow.
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Learning to Breathe Through the Journey of Addiction and PTSD
Heroin allowed Jenny Pacanowski to escape her PTSD in small doses. To get sober she had to deal with her trauma head-on, or accept that she would die.
