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22 ARLINGTON, Virginia (5/28/2021) – The National Guard’s senior general officer reaffirmed today the component’s relationship with a group providing comfort, care and resources to those grieving the death of a military loved one. Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief, National Guard Bureau, and Bonnie Carroll, president, Tragedy and Assistance Program for Survivors, exchanged a memorandum of understanding, continuing an institutional relationship that stretches back to the founding of TAPS. “This one is personal,” Hokanson told those attending the 27th Annual National Military Survivor Seminar and Good Grief Camp during the four-day Memorial Day weekend here. “TAPS was born out of tragedy – the death of eight Soldiers in the Army National Guard in a 1992 plane crash. ....
Military families call for reflection on Memorial Day For a number of families, Memorial Day is not a time for celebration, but a time to remember their loved one, who served their country. and last updated 2021-05-28 11:43:49-04 ARLINGTON, Va. â For Robyn Thomson, meeting her husband, Todd, came down to a chance encounter in college. âHe loved the Army. It was his passion,â she said. âI met him probably about two weeks after he enlisted and then was with him his entire career until I put him in the ground at Arlington.â With their two young daughters by her side, she said her final goodbye to Lt. Col. Todd Thomson in 2015. After multiple deployments to Iraq, cancer ultimately stole him away from his loved ones. ....
Friday brought the return of a Memorial Day weekend tradition in Arlington. The Tragedy Assistance Program For Survivors, known as TAPS, is welcoming more than 700 military family members back in person for its National Military Survivor Seminar and Good Grief Camp, after COVID-19 forced the event to go virtual in 2020. ....
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