October 6

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TAPS Blog | This week's Saturday morning message shares answers to the question,"What are you doing to celebrate the life of your loved one?"

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October 5

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TAPS Blog | Widows Rebecca Morrison and Leslie McCaddon are blogging for TIME.com's Battleland blog about their experiences at the TAPS National Military Suicide Survivor Seminar and Good Grief Camp. Morrison and McCaddon both lost their husbands to suicide a little more than six months ago and contacted TAPS for help. Read their journeys.

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October 1

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TAPS Blog | Celebrate the life, celebrate the life – that’s what TAPS is all about and I do believe it is finally setting in to my exhausted, confused mind. I’ve come to believe the sleepless nights have become a part of my everyday life. I’ve come to understand that my heart will forever be heavy, my gut will hurt on and off forever. But, thankfully, I realize a change has come about. I’m becoming my old self, despite myself. My way of dealing with adversity has always been to take action - find the problem, fix it.

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October 31

TAPS Event | Join us for a weekend of adventure, connection and laughter on the water in Seattle, WA! This retreat will be a time of both activity and relaxation as you get to know your fellow surviving parents! 

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November 2

TAPS Event | TAPS Survivor Seminars provide an opportunity to join together with survivors for a powerful time of support, care and hope. TAPS Good Grief Camp for children and teens provides a safe and supportive atmosphere to conduct activities and opportunities to learn coping skills, establish and identify support systems and create awareness that they are not alone in the grief of their loved one.

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October 1

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TAPS Blog | Celebrate the life, celebrate the life – that’s what TAPS is all about and I do believe it is finally setting in to my exhausted, confused mind. I’ve come to believe the sleepless nights have become a part of my everyday life. I’ve come to understand that my heart will forever be heavy, my gut will hurt on and off forever. But, thankfully, I realize a change has come about. I’m becoming my old self, despite myself. My way of dealing with adversity has always been to take action - find the problem, fix it.

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September 24

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TAPS Blog |  Until Jeff’s death, I was one of those women who thought the world was going to end because my dishwasher wasn’t working, and oh how I wish I could go back to those days. I found myself asking, “Why did it have to be me? Why did it have to be my husband? It just isn’t fair!” No, it’s not fair. Life isn’t fair.

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September 19

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TAPS Blog | Kim Ruocco regularly relives her darkest days – her husband’s suicide and the downward spiral that led to it – to save other military families from the same heartbreak.Speaking to standing-room-only audiences at the Natick Soldier Systems Center, Ruocco described the chain of events that led to Marine Corps Maj. John Ruocco’s death in February 2005.

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