Rep. Dan Crenshaw: Gold Star families' Memorial Day – dedicated to those who can never forget

She remembers now. And with that realization comes the gut-wrenching wave of grief that she is all too familiar with. Tears well up.

By now, the calls and friendly check-ins have mostly stopped. It was amazing at first, when the community pulled together in the most incredible of ways. She was grateful. She truly didn’t have to worry about anything, whether it was groceries or work or even money. What the military didn’t provide was made up for by his fellow SEALs and their wives.   This is the real Memorial Day. It is the day that never goes away, with no real beginning and no end. But eventually people move on. They don’t forget, per se, but they go back to their routines. They come over and try to make conversation. She isn’t good at conversation anymore, so she tells them that she’s doing fine, even though she isn’t. They figure they should come by less and less. Only a couple still check in occasionally. She used to be close with his family, but grief does strange things to people, and they don’t talk much anymore except to arrange visits with her son.