Category: DC-3
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My Mother’s Plane Keeps Crashing
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Responding to the horror of the Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines plane crash where 67 people perished in the Potomac River, Donald Trump’s response before any evidence of the cause was to blame the 58 year-old Diversity Equality and Inclusion Act for hiring under-qualified people.
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Honoring Grief and Making Losses Real
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The losses and fears of pandemic have been bringing up all kinds of losses from long ago –– of security, of health, of identity, of job, of respect, of recognition, of loved ones or pets. And each old trauma contributes to the anxiety of the present.
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Please Don’t Say “Get Over It”
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Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney telling us to “Get over it,” regarding the phone call between President Trump and President Zelenskyeally of the Ukraine made me cringe. Too many times I’ve heard someone say this to me regarding painful experiences in my life.I
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The Many Faces of Survivor Guilt
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Waylon Jennings and I shared the same haunting guilty thought for many years. Here are some of the various ways #survivor guilt shows itself – not just after tragedies but in the daily lives of some families.
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Young Prince Harry and Me – 12 years old and losing our mothers in a crash
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Since the day Princess Diana was killed in a car crash I’ve felt a kindred-spirited-ness with Prince Harry. I, too, was 12 years old when my mother was killed decades earlier in a plane crash. And like Prince Harry, I wasn’t able to talk about it for many years.
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There Is to Be No Grieving
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When my mother and grandmother died in a DC-3 crash I was 12 years old. The rule in my family was “There is to be no grieving.” Incomplete or unresolved or complicated grieving has powerful long-term effects throughout our lives. As with others who have experienced significant childhood challenges, I’m repeatedly reminded that healing is…
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Out of the Ashes – A Joyous Reunion of Grief
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A reunion of grief takes place as an Iowa farm community invites a brother and sister to join them in remembering the plane crash that killed their mother and grandmother – 55 years later.
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Pilgrimage to a DC-3 – The Voices of My Ancestors Whisper to My Granddaughter
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An unusual pilgrimage to a DC-3 to grieve a plane crash loss from many years ago when we were children.