Connections
HEALING Facebook group helps veterans reunite with other veterans
By Celeste Edenloff
We are here to help them, to help the veterans make that connection,” she said. “The healing is so worth it. MICHELLE MILLER
Founder, USA Military Directory on Facebook
Michelle Miller of Alexandria is a military brat. Her family moved all the time while she was growing up. She has been to 47 states, lived in many, plus has been in and lived in a few countries. This means she has met hundreds of people, making dear friends along the way, but also losing touch with many. Because of that, Miller, who has lived in the Alexandria area since 1986 and is a 1990 Alexandria graduate, said she
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formed the largest military brat group on Facebook. She did this in order to reconnect with people – other military brats – she’s met, friends she’s made but has lost track of. While doing a search one day a few years back, her father, Lt. Col. Michael Steele, who was a chaplain in the Army Special Forces before passing away two and a half years ago, was intrigued by the fact that she could find people from her past. He asked her how she could do it so fast and if she could do a search for him. She told him that of course she would help him out. “He started rattling off all these names of people he wanted me to find,” she said.
