If you need help right now: the Veterans Crisis Line answers day or night, free and confidential. In the United States, dial 988 and then press 1, or text 838255, or chat online at veteranscrisisline.net. Outside the United States, the room asks where you are and gives your country’s line; the lines we have verified are listed on the Sign Up page.
These are screens of the real door, made on the house’s own test road on 2026-10-05.
The words on these screens are a sample typed by the house, and they say so: “This is a sample, typed by the house to show the door. It is not a veteran’s story.” No veteran’s story is shown here.
Between your words and the read-back, Rye answers you in conversation. On these screens that answer is the room’s own steady line, because they were made on the test road and not with the live companion. The door opens with the release; until then, sign-up opens soon.
The door.
Two ways in: Open your own free seat, or I was given a code (from a facility, a post or a sponsor). Either way, it is the same room and the same seal. No card, no fee, nothing to download.
Your two codes.
Your seat code (a number, three plain words and two digits) and your recovery code (its own number, four words and two digits), shown once. Only the seat code is also sent to your email, if you gave one; the recovery code is never mailed. Either one opens your story.
Your room.
Rye's welcome, in the owner's own words, read aloud by your browser's own voice. (This screen was made before the microphone; in a browser that can listen, your room now has one.)
The read-back.
Your own words, read back to you. Nothing goes into the book until you say “that's me” — and you can change it or take it out.
Care first.
If distress is ever heard, the crisis line answers first — before anything else, in any state, with or without a seat.
Your book.
Only what you approved, in your own words, each part showing where it came from. A draft until you say “That's my story.”
The Quiet Hour.
A pause. Nothing is written while it is on. The music opens from the Radio Room and plays on your own machine.
Not sure what to do here? Questions about this page.
Is this a real veteran's story?
No. The words on these screens are a sample typed by the house, and they say so. No veteran’s story is ever shown.
When does the door open?
With the release. Until then, sign-up opens soon — write to info@lovingmywords.com and a person will answer.
