The healing power of parks

National parks are free today—Veterans Day!

Throughout the national park system there are dozens of parks with connections to wartime. Some are obvious, like Gettysburg National Military Park and the WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument. Still others are not soevident but no less important—like Yosemite and even Dinosaur national parks.

National parklands have long been placesfor healing, for recovering from wartime—forveterans and civilians alike.While writing Prophets and Moguls, Ran...