Ava’s song video.wmv – Song written by Alex J Winfield for our daughter Ava. Ava was diagnosed at 10 days old with a congenital brain tumor. She went to heaven at 26 days old. Thank you Alex for this beautiful song and allowing us to share Ava with the world.

 

The NRA Is No Match for the Parent Lobby

Filed under: parents grief

The shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary are first of all a tragedy of families, of the parents and grandparents who now are enduring the darkest moments of grief; of the moms and dads who brought home from the shattered school their young sons and …
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In Grief, Media Figures On The Left And The Right Flail Impotently At Video Games

Filed under: parents grief

With the impact of the horrific attack on a Connecticut elementary school still fresh, a grieving nation turns to an equally grief-stricken media in the hopes of making sense of this nightmare. What they …. The hard one is that these shooters have …
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Executive Director of Compassionate Friends, Largest Self-Help Bereavement …

Filed under: parents grief

“It is said that for a parent, when a child dies, the future dies, too,” adds Mrs. Loder, herself a twice bereaved parent, as well as a bereaved sibling. “When this is multiplied by the grief of 20 families that lost young children, as in the Newtown …
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