BHA Podcast & Blast, Ep. 192: Healing Waters and Veterans' Journeys
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring
Zack Williams
4.6 • 853 Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 111 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Almost ten years ago, career firefighter and paramedic Beau Beasley embarked on a journey to tell the true stories of America’s veterans, honestly and in their own words. He was a respected outdoor writer and flyfishing guidebook author, and was deeply affected by the friendships he’d made through his involvement with Project Healing Waters, an organization that connects veterans with fishing and other outdoor opportunities.
“I had no idea what I was doing when I took this on,” Beau says. “I only knew I had to do it.”
Beau’s book “Healing Waters” holds the stories of 32 American military veterans who, through flyfishing, rod building, flytying, and being part of a vibrant outdoor community, “came across from the dark side of the river to the light.”
By turns harrowing, tragic, and joyful, these stories cut to the bone, portraits of the price that some of us are willing to pay for this mighty experiment in freedom and responsibility that is the United Sates of America. Join us, and please, if you are a veteran, or know a veteran, who could benefit from this book or this connection to Project Healing Waters, listen and pass it on.
______
THE VOICE FOR WILD PUBLIC LANDS, WATERS, & WILDLIFE.
www.backcountryhunters.org
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | My main objective was to honor the men and women in the book. My second objective was to help raise money for project healing borders. |
| 0:08.0 | And my third objective was to help the public understand what our servicemen and women go through, |
| 0:15.2 | what it costs them and their families to serve. |
| 0:20.5 | Early in your book, you'd have a quote the mayor may not be from Winston Churchill but |
| 0:24.8 | says we make a living by what we get we make a life by what we get and they get |
| 0:31.1 | exposed to fly fishing and fly tying and casting. |
| 0:35.0 | It's kind of, you heal by proxy. |
| 0:37.5 | You don't go there for therapy. |
| 0:40.1 | But going there, becomes there. |
| 0:43.0 | And this is the opposite of abstraction. |
| 0:46.0 | The people who are telling these stories, |
| 0:49.0 | or this is my experience, this is how I, |
| 0:52.0 | and this is how to varying degrees I cross from the dark side of the |
| 0:56.7 | river into the light. Correct and if there's hope for me there's help for you. |
| 1:08.0 | Hey everybody, Hal Hearing, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Podcasts and Blast. Hey, I'm fired up this morning to announce that Savage Arms is going to be sponsoring this |
| 1:14.1 | podcast and it has a special significance to me because I'm sitting here |
| 1:19.7 | holding Savage Arms Stevens Model 9, Series M, 20-Gage Single Barrel Shotgun that I got for my |
| 1:30.0 | ninth birthday. |
| 1:32.3 | I have had that since 1973. It is polished off. It's silvered up. It's scratched. I passed it on to my son when he was 10, I think. That would have been in 2010. |
| 1:47.4 | And all I've done in all those years is to change the, replace the ejector. |
| 1:53.4 | Um, that shotgun has shot thousands upon thousands of one thousands of rounds |
| 1:59.6 | so |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -107 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Zack Williams, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Zack Williams and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.