Articles by Survivor: Parent
Once upon a time we were a happy, complete family that thrived on holiday traditions. Before Brad died, we approached the winter holidays with delight...
More» Three days after our son was killed, I walked the beach near our home, not knowing whether I had the physical strength to keep my legs moving...
More» My only child, Corporal Benjamin Kopp, an Army Ranger, died on July 18, 2009 of wounds he suffered during his third...
More» Once I lived the American Dream. We were a happy family, military by career and parents by choice.
More» It couldn’t have happened…but it did. It shouldn’t have happened…but it did. There it was, that wooden box that was holding my precious son, my only son...
More» When I conduct workshops and stand in front of grieving military families, I stand not only as an Art Therapist, but as a mother who...
More» My grief journey began when my older son Julian was killed in Iraq on May 22, 2007. I knew that I wanted to do something positive in his honor...
More» When I first came to TAPS, I assumed the military or government was paying..
More» I first began to think about going crazy shortly after our son died. It seemed innocent enough in the beginning.
More» We've all heard the expression that freedom isn't free. That phrase became all too real to me on December 30, 2005.
More» Missing Max: Finding Hope After My Marine Son’s Death - Had I any previous vision of that title...
More» I now tell time by before and after. Before two Army Captains knocked on my door...
More» It was a cold, dreary, wet November morning in Oregon.
More» One of the things that someone said to me shortly after Matthew died in 2007 was...
More» What’s the first male response to trouble? Get in there and do something right away, of course. But you can’t do anything about a warrior...
More» The date is engraved on my heart. The awful day he died. Every year that date comes around again on the calendar, and for lack of anything better...
More» Gardening can be such a personal journey; it’s not just about planting a seed and ...
More» Today I started to take down the tree and put away the holiday decorations.
More» Grief feels a lot like winter. Winter is cloudy, overcast, and cold. The heavy, gray skies make you want to withdraw.
More» As the holiday season approaches and our thoughts turn to holiday music, miracles, lights, and angelic hosts...
More» There is a heart-shaped wooden plaque that hangs on the wall in my kitchen. It says "Home is where our story begins..."
More» “Scott is dead!” These are the dreaded words that no parent or sibling should ever have to hear...
More» In October 1983, Navy Lieutenant John Hudson was packing to return from a deployment...
More» The rifle shots ring through the cemetery. The leader of the Military Funeral Honors team gives...
More» Ten years ago the picture I had of my future was focused on teaching elementary school for as long as I could...
More» I remember our first Christmas season after. It began the first week of November in 1996, three short months into our worst...
More» This book is about nine mothers who lost children who were teens or young adults.
More» Many of us have been faced with multiple shipments of personal effects from various corners of the world. Others of us are denied...
More» I have always been an avid reader. I love books and literature for education and fantasy.
More» Life was simple when I was seven years old and people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
More» My family has always loved Christmas, and it is a wonderful time of year...
More» Weak sunlight filtering through the bare branches, a cold mist rising from the river, and frost on the ground.
More» Not many people can understand the full impact of opening the front door to find military casualty officers...
More» Why is it that human beings, when faced with the unknowable, develop expectations of how it is going to be?
More» The searing pain of loss envelops us completely in the days and weeks and months following the death of our beloved...
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