Does anything hurt worse? I Won’t Forget The Mother Who Lost Her Son To The War In Afghanistan.

This story especially hits home with me. I lost one of my sons in 1994 due to a car accident. You never get over losing a child. You just have to get through it.

While the war in Afghanistan continues, it ended for Jill Stephenson in 2009 when her son was fatally injured in combat.
The attacks of Sept. 11 are still America’s chief economic blight. They are the reasons I went to war and the reason I wear Jill Stephenson’s heart on my wrist.

Cpl. Benjamin S. Kopp and I served in the U.S. Army together as members of 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. Ben hailed from Minnesota and I from Illinois, but we’d both see combat before we could buy a beer in our country. I left the service in 2008 and Ben died a year later in Maryland, eight days after being shot in Afghanistan. Wounded in a foreign country, he died in his own. His name and date of death span a black metal bracelet in sleek silver cuts. I wear his tombstone on my wrist.

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