Rudy Thomas, a friend featured in the 2007-2011 Brooklyn Historical Society show “In Our Voice,” and quoted in the introduction to my book Bringing It All Back Home, passed away this weekend.

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Rudy fought with the symptoms of PTSD. In my 2007 interview with him he told me:

I have a patch on my jacket that says, not all wounds are visible.