Crazy Blessing: How the Warrior Rizen Ranch Helps Heroes Heal & Families Forge Ahead

Sara Carter Show

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever received that phone call? The one where your life is suddenly and forever changed because someone you love has died or been permanently disabled?

Many spouses and children of service members and first responders know exactly what that's like.

So does Sara. in 2011, her husband called her to tell her he had been "nicked up" fighting in Afghanistan. But Sara knew it was likely much worse than that, and it was. Her husband was permanently blinded and blessed to be alive.

But Sara was not the only family member whose life changed that day. Her stepdaughter, Erica, was studying overseas when she received the news and it would be months before she could see her dad in person.

Being the daughter of an elite soldier, and now married to one as well, Erica, has a passion for serving military and first responder families. Her family operates the Warrior Rizen Foundation, which brings families dealing with devastating losses or permanent change to the Warrior Rizen Ranch for a time of rest, rejuvenation, and inspiration for the journey ahead.

Today, Erica and Sara discuss what it's like to get that phone call and having to accept that things will never be exactly the same again. But they also discuss how vitally important it is to keep living and striving and achieving more than you thought possible. And Erica shares how the Warrior Rizen Foundation and ranch help in that healing process.

Time Stamps:
0:05 A soldier's life can change in an instant
9:30 Erica Schlichte Joins the Sara Carter Show
14:22 The importance of therapy
21:55 What is it like to get that call?
32:45 The food is incredible
35:27 Working with Gold Star families is rewarding
44:05 How to support Warrior Rizen
48:25 Show Close

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0:30.3	Anytime any troop is deployed overseas life can change
0:38.3	instantaneously. It can change instantaneously for them and even though they know it even though they signed off on it
0:46.6	It's not something that you really expect to happen. It's something you think about but you don't really believe it's going to happen.
0:54.0	It's just like everyday life, right? We never get up thinking, oh, today could be the day that something really
0:59.7	terrible could happen where my life will change forever or that of my family.
1:05.4	But for troops, they know that.
1:08.1	The minute they sign those papers, the minute that they decide to serve their nation, that that is a very, very real possibility and especially in
1:19.2	deployment, unpredictable events like an ambush, an ID, an improvised explosive device going off
1:29.2	beneath their feet or a V-bid as we used to call them in Afghanistan a vehicle, you know, explosive device or
1:37.0	a miscommunication that puts troops in situations that causes them to be under duress or right under direct threat by
1:46.9	the Taliban or misfire. Anything can happen. What happens after that ripples across the entire spectrum. It affects every
1:59.5	single person in their life and frankly I think it affects the society as a whole because
2:07.6	we have asked these men and women to do the job that we're not doing. We have given them the opportunity
2:16.4	because it's an all-volunteer force. They haven't been forced, right?
2:20.9	But it's an all-volunteer force to go overseas or to defend the homeland here.
2:27.9	We have asked them to give of themselves the ultimate sacrifice to protect this nation and our Constitution and our way of life,
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