‘Returning the Favor’ is a love letter to bottom-up solutions

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‘Returning the Favor’ is a love letter to bottom-up solutions

FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia — Steve Hotz started Black Horse Forge, a nonprofit organization that provides support for veterans, active-duty military personnel, and first responders through the ancient art of blacksmithing.The retired sergeant, who served 17 years in the 82nd Airborne Division of the U.S. Army, said he started the endeavor to teach the arts of blacksmithing, tool making, and blade-smithing first to heal himself and then others who had brought ghosts home from war.Hotz’s decision to join the military happened in the heat of an I’ll-show-my-boss-moment: He was an interior designer, and she was giving him the business for reasons he cannot recall now. He ..