Whether he actually said it or not, the other night I couldn’t help but think of the words attributed to the British lion, Winston Churchill, who reportedly once quipped: “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”

The reason it came to mind was that I was digging into Beau Beasley’s newest book: Healing Waters: Veterans’ Stories of Recovery in their Own Words. The “healing” of these vets comes— strangely enough—through fly fishing.

Beau Beasley is well-known as the Director of the Virginia Fly Fishing & Wine Festival and his books Fly Fishing Virginia and Fly Fishing the Mid-Atlantic. The retired Fairfax County Virginia firefighter is much less known for his work with the veterans’ program: Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing (PHWFF).

But he has been involved—deeply involved—with the program for years as a volunteer, and rightly felt compelled to tell its story…

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