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first published by The Meadows 4/15/20 Our sense of loss during the current COVID-19 crisis can trigger hidden emotions from when we experienced a sense of loss before. Whatever early losses you have had in your life — whether they be your own divorce, your parents, or both, or the abandonment of one parent, a childhood or parental illness or death, financial upheaval, constant moving around, or growing up with parental addiction or adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) — they are likely to...

War is most certainly Hell. It is also a source of #ACEs for the children of veterans. Here's a little insight into my story.

Lovely tribute to your father and to your loss. Sometimes I wonder if war is not only a cause of suffering, including ACEs, but sometimes a result of them. That might be a stretch, but in the case of some leaders who can't find nonviolent ways to solve disagreements, it might be. Thank you for posting this here, Elizabeth.