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No one understands…

Dec 3, 2017 | Stories

It’s okay no one understands why I was so upset this morning. Dad and Johnny don’t get it – perhaps the male mind can compartmentalize easily – they accept that you’re gone. Today I took stuff out of your room, the way I had set your things up, because dad is going to...

Is Your Child Safe? Betsy Wants To Know

Dec 3, 2017 | Stories

Serving her country was the first thing Betsy Cummings would do following graduation. Leaving her small hometown of Culpeper, Virginia, she was off to see the world, meet her future husband, and eventually welcome her young son, Dylan, into the world. Following...

Even the Forgotten Lose Children

Dec 3, 2017 | Stories

Even the Forgotten Lose Children Countless experiences shape the trajectory of a human life, but for Maryam Henderson-Uloho the convergence of two specific and devastating events ultimately changed her course: a 25-year prison sentence and the death of her son,...

Don’t Lean Into The Brokeness

Dec 3, 2017 | Stories

Don’t Lean Into The Brokeness Nearly three years ago the nation’s attention was gripped by the shooting death of Michael Brown, a young black man who was shot by Darren Wilson, a white police officer. As unrest unfolded in Ferguson, larger questions about racial...

A Legacy of Protecting Others

Dec 3, 2017 | Stories

Bryan Burgess (center) was killed in action during his final 2011 deployment to Afghanistan just 16 days before he was scheduled to return home — a few weeks shy of his 30th birthday. His parents Terry and Beth created Gold Star Parents retreat and network in his...

This is not going to be a 24-hour day…

Dec 3, 2017 | Life After, Stories

“I get up and I’m like, ‘Today I’m going to do this.’ Momo couldn’t stay here for me, but I’m doing my best to walk it out in a way that maybe a young person that I talk to or they see me smiling even if I’m crying and just keep going and maybe it’ll make a...