By: Travis Partington
on August 31, 2020

Veterans Get Guitars Experience – 08/30/20

This is a follow up to the post about Veterans Garden Inc. event with Rolling Thunder MA Chapter 2. The Afternoon Cookout featured Sean T Hannan of Veterans Get Guitars (https://www.facebook.com/Veterans-Get-Guitars-1659239124340976/).

Sean started his outreach in 2016 where he would give out guitars to Veterans after taking 60 – 90 minutes to show us the basics. I had come to the cookout and I was encouraged to give it a try. I had never really taken to the guitar. My background was piano and when I tried playing bass or guitar, I would get frustrated and put the bass away and wouldn’t even think about trying the guitar

So it was cool to be sitting there with other Veterans just learning the basics with someone who wanted to share their love of music with us. I was hooked, and the other Veterans had a great time as well.

I talked with Sean later and said that I don’t know what the future holds, but I hope to really do something with this. Music is a gift and has so many benefits to everyone. Thanks Sean, I am looking forward to learning more.


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