Please join us Monday 10/28 for an evening of music and storytelling with Jacob George; a three tour veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) turned peace activist. He served as a paratrooper in the United States Army Special Operation Command (USASOC) between 2001-2004 in Afghanistan, and was honorably discharged as sergeant. Jacob is a cofounder of A Ride Till The End (ARTTE), which is a veteran lead perpetual bicycle protest of the Afghan War and is based out of Fayetteville, Arkansas. The ride began on May 1, 2010 and has covered over 8,000 miles in the U.S. ARTTE uses music and poetry to share the veterans' experience and facilitate healing processes for war trauma. Jacob returned to Afghanistan in the summer of 2011 with Voices For Creative Nonviolence to work with and hear stories of Afghans struggling for peace and has been sharing those stories with music and poetry while riding his bicycle around the country. From these experiences he wrote the album Soldier’s Heart. The audience goes on a journey which begins on a farm in rural Arkansas, to the mountains of Afghanistan and then home again to the internal battle with PTSD that touches us all. The musical platform is folk/bluegrass in combination with storytelling and explores the overall impact of war on Afghans, U.S. soldiers, U.S. citizens and our “enemies”. In addition to Colorado Springs, Jacob will be performing in Boulder & Denver.

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