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Remembering Heroes The Way They Would Have Wanted

Remembering Heroes The Way They Would Have Wanted

There are some voices that are rarely heard from on Memorial Day.  The families of Special Operators understand better than anyone the sacrifices that every member of their family makes in order to do their collective part to keep our country safe.  We don’t often get a look inside their world.  It’s often filled with the pain of loss.

Sometimes people do things that intensify that pain after a loved one is killed.  There are people who choose to talk about it, and sadly, those who chose to make money by talking about it. They take it a step too far and overreach their area of knowledge, but they sell a lot of books.  Some of these people claim that they will take the reader into the souls of America’s heroes, without so much as even talking to the people who knew these heroes best:  their spouses.  Some spouses of the fallen see it as a grotesque violation of trust if the person writing the book hasn’t even bothered to ask whether it’s OK to name the hero who would have preferred that his identity remain anonymous in order to keep his family safe.

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