Gold Star children on life without their heroes

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Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.2 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The children of fallen soldiers often bottle up their suffering. But some are opening up with the help of a writing seminar for Gold Star kids. Bailey Donahue, Maria Rossi and Thomas Brennan join Anthony Brooks.

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0:00.0	The On Point podcast is supported by Prompt.
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0:21.0	I'm Anthony Brooks in for Magnetraker Party.
0:23.4	This is on point.
0:25.4	Every major Mike Donahue was killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in 2014.
0:31.3	That made his then 16-year-old daughter, Bailey Donahue, a gold star kid.
0:36.7	As Americans prepare to celebrate Memorial Day weekend, we're going to spend some time
0:40.8	today hearing about what it's like to have a parent in the military who didn't make it
0:45.8	home.
0:46.8	We're talking about families who pay a painful price that too many of us know too little
0:51.6	about.
0:53.1	Every children and other family members are asked to watch as their loved ones train
0:58.4	and deploy and sometimes die.
1:01.6	These families take on a terrible burden that few of us think about let alone discuss.
1:06.6	We're going to do that today.
1:08.7	Bailey Donahue wrote an essay about losing her dad as part of a writing seminar for gold
1:13.5	star children and their siblings organized by the online publication The War Horse.
1:19.6	Bailey is with us live today.
1:20.9	At first, here she is reading her essay.
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