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After my brother John was killed in 2007, my entire life changed & for a while there not so much for the good. I was struggling with everything in life, pushing people away so I didn't have to face my reality, & going through certain measures that were nothing like my character to just try to feel like I was someone else besides someone who had this type of pain now. I found TAPS five years after John was KIA in Afghanistan. Ever since John's death I have had so many people who have said I've changed & who wanted the old me back. (Not as much I as did!) I didn't know how to get back to that place I was before 6/17/2007. At my first TAPS retreat, I realized that it was ok that I wasn't that person anymore. I felt free to be who I had become. I wasn't judged for the feelings I had (not even when I expressed anger towards John for leaving us). Everything I had felt was normal & I found a whole set of siblings that felt just like me, that had done some of those same things I did to try & forget who I was after he died. I have support now. My journey of healing has begun now & I don't have to do it alone anymore. At my second retreat, I learned how to have fun again and how to live again the way John would have wanted, the way all our siblings would have wanted us to live. I'm debt fully grateful to TAPS!

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