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paying his mortgage and lost his
                                                                          ৵дh௱ࢸ (Mark Kane) ࿁Ϥ
                                                                        home. “I didn’t want to do anything
                                                                          ܘชጳሳf˼຾੬ίБᔼࣛԴ
                                                                        anymore,” he says. “All I wanted to
                                                                        do was be away from people.”
                                                                          ͜ɓԬڢ੬஝ٙ˙جdԷνོ
                                                                          Theatrics had long been a part
                                                                        of Reges’ life. His mom was a pup-
                                                                          ਸ਼ձ৵ஔᐕجf௱ࢸ͎ٙፋಀ
                                                                        peteer, and when he was in high
                                                                        school, Reges had a part-time job
                                                                          ݊ɓΤʃʒdμܑ͜Ꮀձ๞ᇆ
                                                                        playing a clown on a local  Bozo’s
                                                                          ڌစԸܔͭ๖ஷٙ዗૑d̍
                                                                        Big Top television show.
                                                                          Decades later in Iraq, the Army
                                                                          ܼί 1960 ϋ˾͜வ၇˙όԸ
                                                                        reservist was assigned to civil af-
                                                                        fairs with  duties  that  included
                                                                          ᇠձኪࣧ၇ૄፄΥ੭Ըٙၡੵ
                                                                        helping rebuild schools. He quickly
                                                                          ҅ැf
                                                                        recognized that Iraqi children were
                                                                        terrified of U.S. soldiers in their full
                                                                              ௱ࢸם෍əɓ໊ಀ຾ཱི
                                                                        body armor. So he asked his mom
                                                                          աːଣ਄ੰਪᕚѢᓔٙৗͼ
                                                                        to send over some puppets. The
                                                                        kids loved them, and so did Reges
                                                                          ࠏɛdԨၾԭ຅౶ɓৎֻ࠭
                                                                        and his fellow troops. He even
                                                                        started a nonprofit called Peace
                                                                          ͘ή৵זfՉʕఱϞཤࣸ౶
                                                                        Through Puppets.
                                                                          (Reges)fίઞஞ֘Յ৫ձᔼ
                                                                          But back at home, he was suffer-
                                                                        ing. He desperately needed some
                                                                          ৫ಂගd௱ࢸ޶Ցɓ໊ཱི຾ࠬ
                                                                        levity, and that’s when clowning
                                                                        found him again.
                                                                          ᒲٙৗͼࠏɛᏖɪ৿ቻdɦ྅
                                                                          Around 2015, Hunter “Patch”
                                                                          ܀ɿɓᅵڌစf˼Ⴍd˼ࡁۃ
                                                                        Adams, the clown-doctor famously
                                                                        portrayed by Robin Williams in
                                                                          ֻவԬ೯࢝ʕ਷࢕ࣛdʔ݊੭
                                                                        the 1998 movie about his life using
                                                                        humor to heal, wanted to send a
                                                                          ഹ M16 Ӊ࿻dϾ݊੭ഹ˼ࡁ
                                                                        group of veterans with PTSD and
                                                                        other conditions to Guatemala for a
                                                                          ٙߎᄀɿf
                                                                        week and teach them to clown.
                                                                              ߅ኪ޼Ӻ˕ܵʃʒڌစ
                                                                          Clinical psychologist Mark Kane,
                                                                        who had been counseling veterans
                                                                          ʔසᜫᝈ଺աूdɰᜫڌစ٫
                                                                        for nearly 20 years at the Grand
                                                                        Rapids Vet Center in Michigan, was
                                                                          աूj˼ࡁٙɽ໘ึପ͛ළପ
                                                                        intrigued. He’d often used out-of-
                                                                          ९ձεˋᶶഃᜫɛชᙂԄλٙ
                                                                        the-box approaches in his practice,
                                                                        including drum circles and equine
                                                                          ஃဧႆdԎဧႭf࿁ϞԬৗͼ
                                                                        therapy. Kane’s mother had been a
                                                                          ࠏɛԸႭdί͘ή৵זڌစʃ
                                                                        clown and used humor and clown-
                                                                        ing to build bridges, including to
                                                                          ʒ݊˼ࡁεϋԸୋɓϣชՑҞ
                                                                        address racial tension over school
                                                                        integration in the 1960s.
                                                                          ᆀf˜຅˼ࡁᏖɪ৿ቻeࠦՈ
                                                                          Kane enlisted a group of veterans
                                                                          ձ৿ᄀɿdක֐ڌစࣛd˼ࡁ
                                                                        who had struggled with their men-
                                                                        tal health to fly to Guatemala with
         密西根勇士小丑劇團在退伍軍人之家、街頭市集和車展上表演,照片中                                Adams. Reges was among them.
                                                                          ѓൡҢdœҢชᙂІʉҗֽᓖ
         他們正鑽進一條巨大的內褲裡。                  Williams) ˴စٙෂাཥᅂ              During visits to orphanages and
                                                                          ୭əІҢd™ԎဧႭf
                       “What happens when you clown is you
                                                                        hospitals, Kane watched a group
    PHOTOGRAPH: DARREN IOZIA  Warrior Clowns,   add good memories to the really hard   in wigs and act like children again.
             ್ϾdΫ਷ܝd˼ۍཱི
       The Michigan
                                                                              ௱ࢸ௰୞੽ፔਠʈЪʕ
                                                                        of embattled individuals dress up
         ա๦ᆟf˼ڢ੬ცࠅɓԬऊ
                                         ֮փ‘(Patch) ʕᄿމɛٝ
       seen here climbing
                                                                          ৗ;dШʥ್ᘱᚃၾவࡈྠ᜗
                         ones. It gives you a weapon to fight
                                                                        They’re going to these developing
       into a large pair
                                                                        countries not with their M16s but
                                         ķķ ซࠅ৔ɓ໊ઃϞ௴ෆܝᏐ
         ჆dఱίவࣛd˼ɦࠠܽ࿁ʃ
                                                                          ɓৎڌစʃʒf˼ୋɚϣΫՑ
       of underwear,
                               against the hard things.”
                                                                        with their red noses, he says.
      PHOTOGRAPH: DARREN IOZIA perform at  ɽߒί 2015 ϋdЖत   ৗͼࠏɛ̘͘ή৵זɓ඄d઺  clowning benefits not just audi-
         ʒڌစٙฌλf
                                         ዧღᖟ (PTSD) ձՉ˼शषٙ
       veterans homes,
                                                                          Science supports the idea that
       street fairs, and
       car shows.
                                                                          ˜຅ЫҲစʃʒࣛdЫึ
         ˜֮փ™ԭ຅౶ (Hunter “Patch”
                                         ˼ࡁνОڌစʃʒf
                                                                          ίԟԬ೨߮ٙΫኳʕ̋ɝ
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