https://www.compassionatefriends.org/understanding-grief-loved-one-dies-military/
Understanding Grief When Your Loved One Dies in the Military When a loved one dies while serving in the military, it affects your entire family and the ensuing grief can be overwhelming. One is immediately thrust into shock and disbelief….
https://www.compassionatefriends.org/memorial_wall/illinois-beth-benson/
In loving memory of Matthew Benson and Andrew Benson. You will forever be in our hearts. 💔❤️ Our family gathered together to be with Grandma Jane on hospice on 3/16/20. Matthew came from California and Andrew from Chicago. That evening…
https://www.compassionatefriends.org/memorial/montgomery-al-vanetta-mccrary/
Arthur lived a wonderful life and passed away peacefully on 11/18/2022 at the age of 90. Our eldest brother brought wisdom and love to all in our family. Not one for too much fun, he took life very seriously and…
https://www.compassionatefriends.org/memorial/arizona-tracy-von-aspen/
Carson was just 17, a recent high school graduate, just one month shy of turning 18 when he ended his life by suicide. Carson loved his friends, basketball and family, I’m pretty sure in that order. He had a heart…
https://www.compassionatefriends.org/blog/thoughts-on-memorial-day-weekend/
It is Memorial Day weekend…I remember the first one came just a couple of weeks after Nina died on May 11th. It was really the first time I thought about what this weekend meant…of course, first and foremost, honoring and…
https://www.compassionatefriends.org/blog/i-didnt-say-goodbye/
There simply wasn’t time to finish the sentence or to make sure he had everything he needed:  watch, money, schedule, notes, clean underwear. I had planned on having a nice, leisurely moment or two, simply gazing into one another’s eyes, memorizing the…
The stores are also crowded with people preparing for activities to celebrate the beginning of summer. The roads leading to area beaches are backlogged with traffic. Cookouts and family fun activities are planned. The department stores are advertising great Memorial…
https://www.compassionatefriends.org/blog/two-years/
Time should be absolute, shouldn’t it? One minute is 60 seconds. One hour is 60 minutes. One day is 24 hours. It doesn’t change. It is absolutely definable. There is no variation unless you count leap year. So why isn’t…
https://www.compassionatefriends.org/blog/why-are-grgs-grandparents-raising-grandchildren-grieving/
Nobody expects to raise their grandkids, but thousands of Americans are doing just that. I’m one of them. On a snowy February night in 2007, my daughter died from the injuries she received in a car crash. In the fall,…
https://www.compassionatefriends.org/blog/the-francis-slow-cooker-or-how-the-wars-came-to-our-house/
My son Francis survived his tours with the Tenth Mountain Division in Iraq and Afghanistan. He survived Afghanistan’s notorious Korengal Valley. If you’ve read Sebastian Junger’s book War or seen the documentary Restrepo, you’re familiar with the “Valley of Death.”…
