
Photo courtesy The Smoky Mountain News
On Veterans Day, The Smoky Mountain News and Blue Ridge Public Radio have presented stories about disabled Haywood County veteran Kori Osienger, who is a Big Sister to Little Brother Taiven. In this article in the SMN, Osienger, a former combat medic who described tending the wounded and dying in Afghanistan as “the best worst days of my life,” talks about how transformative being a Big is.