Marcus served eleven years and came home with a spine held together by hardware and a prescription list longer than his deployment record. For six years the routine did not change: appointment, refill, wait.
A neighbour dragged him to a Saturday build day at a MEDVETS grow site. He spent four hours arguing about the correct way to square a raised bed and went home tired for the first time in years.
They gave me somewhere to be at six in the morning and somebody who noticed if I did not turn up. Marcus R., U.S. Army (Ret.)
He has been the site lead for eighteen months now. The crew he runs distributes six hundred pounds of produce a month to families within four blocks of the lot.
"Nobody fixed me," he says. "They just gave me somewhere to be at six in the morning and somebody who noticed if I did not turn up. Turns out that was most of it."
