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My son died from chemo complications. He had Hodgkins Disease - more than likely due to immune deficiencies from toxic chemicals emitted from burn pits while deployed to Camp Victory, Baghdad. He was also diagnosed with meningitis and avium bacterium. i too learned about TAPS about a year after Austin died and signed myself up online. Thanks to TAPS I've learned that i'm not alone, am surrounded by love, and - most importantly - have learned to "celebrate the life' now with perhaps a little more frequency than I mourn the loss of my precious son. I've participated in TAPS parents retreats, two TAPS National Seminars in DC on Memorial Weekend, local TAPS seminars, written for the TAPS parents blog and the TAPS Magazine, and I am a peer mentor. I truly receive more from being a mentor than I give. My daughter-in-law and grandchild have joined me at the National Seminars and the local seminar at PNAS. My little Anna Lee loves her TAPS trips and her mentors. Unbelievable - each child has their own mentor for the whole seminar. I've met wonderful Moms who have and continue to walk my walk and who have lived my nightmare. Thanks to TAPS, it's just a little easier for each of us to get up every morning, put one foot in front of the other, and make that effort to focus on the good memories of our heroes rather than our loss. God Bless Bonnie Carroll, TAPS, our Heroes, and our great Country.

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