10 | Trained to Go to War, but Never Trained to Come Home

James Dickerson came from a long line of warriors.

But growing up, he mostly heard the funny stories.

The cold.

The food.

The strange things soldiers do.

Not the horrors.



That changed when James went to Bosnia.

In this episode of Tethered, he talks about what happens when the stories veterans carry are too heavy to casually hand to the people they love—and why some experiences demand the right time, place, and purpose before they’re shared.

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James takes us back to the Sava River, the devastation of Bosnia, and the realities of a war zone that had once hosted the Olympics.

Along the way, we also meet Irina— his East German wife— whose own childhood behind the Iron Curtain carried trauma James didn’t fully understand at the time.

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And then the story comes home.

Because surviving war is one thing. But re-entering family life is another.

James describes coming home physically hurt, mentally exhausted, disconnected, and lacking the tools to be the husband and father he wanted to be.

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This episode is about war, family, identity, and reintegration.

Because sometimes people are trained exceptionally well to go…

…and almost not at all to come back.

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