“…a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance…” Ecclesiastes 3:4
Our country recognizes the need for mourners in a community traumatized by devastating events, man-caused and acts of Nature, that result in the deaths of loved ones to remember those events and honor the people who died. Memorial Day and the anniversaries of events such as the 9/11 attacks, shooting sprees that have been witnessed by the nation in news reports, the tsunamis in the Pacific and the attack on Pearl Harbor are honored year after year. And for however long these memorial events happens the nation sits in silent reverence and honors the need to remember those who died.
But many times the needs of mourners coping with personal losses caused by the deaths of their friends or family members are not met with the same approval, silent reverence…
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