Jen Bailey didn’t know what to do next when she returned to her hometown of Stoughton after serving in the U.S. Army for 11 years.
While in the military, a soldier’s mission is clear. It’s less so when returning home. Bailey said she was depressed for months after she was honorably discharged with a hip injury at 29 and focused all of her energy on her son, who was 7 at the time.
But now that her son is grown and in the Army himself, the 43-year-old Bailey has been forced to focus on herself, a daunting and isolating task in a world that didn’t see veterans like her coming…