NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF)  — An area veteran launched an nameless touring journal to attach strangers to one another.

Letty Rammal drops off clean journals in random locations.

“I noticed the trend was — although we’re very different and don’t know each other — a lot of our stories are so much more alike than we think,” Rammal mentioned.

She calls the touring journal “My Page Matters.” People write an nameless entry, then give the journal to a stranger.

“Maybe your story is relevant to the person who got the book before or after you,” Rammal mentioned.

She hopes her ardour venture restores folks’s religion in one another.

“I think human connection is important because amid COVID and political and religious standpoints, we have faced such a divide in this country, and it was scary as someone in the U.S. who served in the military,” Rammal mentioned. “I hated seeing it, and I felt as though if I could make a change and help unite us in a way, this would be how, and this would be my why.”

Once, she left her private journal at a restaurant. She noticed a stranger choose it up and browse it. That’s when the concept developed.

“I think with my transition from the military and moving out of state and starting my life all over again as a civilian, it was really hard,” Rammal mentioned. “And so, I expressed that being lonely is okay, and being transparent with yourself is a healing process.”

Now, a whole bunch of individuals have penned their ideas. Some writers will even submit their journal entries on her website in order that the general public can learn them.

“I cried to a few of the stories that are submitted online on our website; they’re very compelling and gut-wrenching, so I let the audience know. I submit them online and put up a trigger warning. Some of them are about going through cancer, going through divorces; some people have explained their childhood traumas, and it can be healing to other people,” Rammal mentioned.

One of the touring journals made all of it the way in which to the United Kingdom.

“I don’t know these people, and I wish I could just give them a hug, but that story that impacted me may help someone else heal and recover as well, who may be going through the same situation,” Rammal mentioned.

Her subsequent section of the venture might be a touring prayer journal.