Taya Kyle reflects on Memorial Day, her 'American Sniper' husband Chris Kyle

Memorial Day: The overlooked military suicide prevention tool no one is talking aboutTaya Kyle reflects on Memorial Day, her ‘American Sniper’ husband Chris Kyle

I often wonder what people see a man who wears a military uniform. Do they see a son, a father, a husband, and a friend who could have chosen to do many things in life but chose to offer not only his service but his life for his country? Just as I have learned to manage the weight I carry, Chris, too, was learning to manage the load placed on him. His face, though, wore the smile of the man behind the uniform who was returning to a family who missed, loved, and longed for this day when he would be home. His eyes held the love he wrote about in the emails home during his long months away.

I keep these memories of the man in the uniform and behind it, in a place I have learned to manage because not managing them might leave me in a place of perpetual missing the life and person I cannot get back and still long for. It is a place where my throat is tight, and the tears in my eyes threaten to spill over. I manage how my brain allows a memory or keeps it locked up safely.

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