Brentwood Joe's Town Hall Podcast
For Richard: White Star Families and the Grief America Doesn't See
Jun 1, 202621 minS0
<p>This episode is personal.</p><p>Released on the first day of PTSD Awareness Month, this podcast shines a light on White Star Families — the families of veterans and service members lost to suicide. Unlike Gold Star Families, who receive federal recognition and public honor, White Star Families carry their grief largely in silence, without official acknowledgment, and too often without the support they deserve.</p><p>Every year in the United States, approximately six thousand veterans die by suicide. That is seventeen families every single day who wake up carrying a loss the world does not always know ho...
