On October 18th former marine and author Tyler Boudreau (Packing Inferno)  Amherst artist Matt Mitchell (100 Faces of War Experience)  visiting Iraqi artist Thamer Dawood and I traveled from the Pioneer Valley of Western Massachusetts to The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy  New York where we co-hosted an afternoon of painting and socializing with a group of recently resettled Iraqi refugee children/youth and their families