Yes, Memorial Day is also for military members who died by suicide
It’s impossible to know the role military service played in the deaths of 335 active-duty members who took their lives in 2021, or the 406 who died the same way the previous year.It’s something Will wrestles with every day as she continues to go through everything her ebullient, charming son said and did in the final months of his life.
He sought help, but the Navy counseling sessions were short and seemingly ineffective, his mom said. He fit a pattern. And the military later admitted, in a scathing report released just this month, that it had let down sailors like Decker serving in Virginia. Sure, Memorial Day — for the folks who aren’t among the civilians seeing it as merely a long weekend of cookouts and cocktails — usually focuses on battlefield heroes and lives lost in combat.
They, too, aren’t as quickly honored on this day of remembering. We don’t like pointing out how the military messed up on this national holiday.“Families of veterans who died by suicide likely may wonder if we’re guilty of ‘stolen valor’ when openly honoring them on Memorial Day,” Dean Lambert wrote last year in a, as he honored his son, Adam Lambert, who took his own life in 2015, a year after returning home from serving in Afghanistan.
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