Discussion 2: Children Coping With Grief and Loss

Coping with Grief and loss

Coping with Grief and loss Program Transcript

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DESMOND W. FLANIGAN: The guy on my right was killed, the guy on my left was killed. The guy behind me was killed. I used up their ammo when I ran out.

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DESMOND W. FLANIGAN: Their wives are also affected, because our one impulse-- I'm the only soldier left.

BETSY FLANIGAN: You have to go on and live your life. You have to mother your baby, take care your parents. So you don't think about it every minute, but it really hits home when you see the name of somebody you knew. And one of the worst was a friend of ours was listed as missing in action. So I don't know what his wife did. I mean for years, he was missing in action, and they finally decided he'd been killed. I don't know how they decided that. So anyway that kind of thing was stressful, but you can't make it day to day. There's no way. You would go crazy, I think.

The only thing I would recommend like with ours, if people can meet with other people in their situation, that is huge. Because somebody can talking about this is what you should do or shouldn't do. And if they haven't been in your situation, you don't give them any credibility.

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Coping with Grief and loss Additional Content Attribution

Images used with permission of Kristin Wilkinson.

Flanigan , D. (n.d.). Flanigan Images [Photographs]. Images used with permission of Desmond Flanigan.

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Coping with Grief and loss

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