veterans – Gloria Shell Mitchell

Memorial Day Tribute to Veterans

On this Memorial Day, I salute my sister, Elizabeth Shell Carr, for years of service to Black Veterans for Social Justice. As a LCSW, her inspiration came from a desire to help female veterans suffering from military sexual trauma (MST) and the following family members who served in the armed forces: Uncle Samuel Pelzer- Army Uncle Ruben Pelzer-Army Uncle James Pelzer-Army Uncle Jervia Pelzer, Jr. – Army Sister Cynthia McNeil- Marines Brother-in-law Lewis June – […]

San Bernardino School Shooting Makes My Point

My manuscript is being formatted while people are reading about issues I’ve shared in my latest book, Bliss and Blisters in Love and Marriage. I am painfully aware that the story is a familiar one. Yet, there’s still a need to remind people to open up and speak out about the pain too often present in our homes and in our hearts. Synopsis Young Vincent Henderson, fearful that he might be killed in the Vietnam […]

Bliss and Blisters in Love & Marriage

Prologue I am delighted to share my story of love and loss during the Vietnam War era. Perhaps our marital relationship would have been quite different had the military draft not been a reality in our young adult experience. We’ll never know. Yet, on behalf of the 58,220 young men and women who lost their lives in combat and for other causes on foreign soil (per the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, DC), I felt […]