Maya Valrissa Louise Marshall

Women Veterans Matter Maya Valrissa Louise Marshall

"We Gonna Be Alright" says the prophetic voice of Kendrick Lamar. --- Women Veterans Matter: Spiritual Resources to Resist Invisibility, Injustice and Violence is a call to resistance, courage and to spiritual formation. The writers are Barbara Summey Marshall, a former Navy Chaplain, Womanist Theologue and Social Advocate. The other is Maya Valrissa L. Marshall, a U. S. Army Afghanistan Combat Veteran, World traveler, HBCU Student and SisterFriend to Many. For better than a decade, the Marshall- Neely family opened their family home to homeless women veterans and then in August 2010 purchased their first of three VA foreclosures in Fort Bragg/Fayetteville, NC These women veterans took the risk and opened their hearts, their homes and their purses to help women veterans and their families elude homelessness. The first VA foreclosure was named The Jubilee House which was renovated by the ABC Extreme Home Makeover Team. Most the women veterans helped had overcome many challenges and yet continued to fight for stability, reintegration and fair treatment. Neither Invisibility, Injustice, Misogyny nor Violence against women veterans will turn back the clock. Women Veterans Matter and many have died on the battlefield defending this great nation. Read about these courageous Sisters who faced hostility, violence and media lynching. Women veterans are to be honored and recognized for their service and sacrifice to this nation.