The loss of a loved one is always a difficult and traumatic moment that every person in their life must go through. People go through many stages of grief and react to death differently. Some people tend to have a flat spot, while others are seen whaling to lose their loved one. Many people feel intense sadness or loss when someone close to them dies. This impacts how they react to others, the extent to which their physical and mental health is tested, as well as the length of the healing process needed to get through this devastating time. In this article I will discuss the effects of military death and how families react to the loss of their loved ones. Serving your country is one of the best things an individual can achieve. It gives a sense of security to know that you are able to fight for the rights of others and maintain this great level of freedom that our fathers, uncles and brothers fought for during the war. Since 2001, thousands of military personnel have been shipped to Iraq and Afghanistan, where they have been killed in combat operations, where the families of those individuals will never see them again. Families who lose individuals during war face similar suffering to other families. There are some unique aspects of military family loss that people should be aware of. One aspect is that “military deaths during war are part of public events, which diminishes the privacy families usually have when grieving. Lack of privacy can make it more difficult for family members and other caring adults to protect children from unexpected or unwanted intrusions into family grief. A family may prefer that the death be kept private” (Retrieved from http://nctsn.org/sites/default/files/assets/pdfs/military_grief_medical.pdf). The only...half of the paper......emotional experience. As a person we tend to learn as time goes by and things get better. Bibliography Boss, P "Research, theory and practice on ambiguous losses: reflections after 9/11" Journal of Marriage and Family Vol. 66, No.3 (August 2004) (p.551-566) Page count: 16Corr,C & Corr,D "Death & Dying Life & Living" (seventh edition) 2009*Part Four: Bereavement (grief, bereavement and families' page 267)*Traumatic loss and death page 271Lieberman, EJ "American Families and the War of Vietnam" Journal of Marriage and Family Vol. 33, no. 4, Double Special Issue: Violence and Family and Sexism in Family Studies, Part 2 (November 1971) (pp. 709-721) Page Count: 13 Traumatic Pain in Military Children: Information for National Health Professionals Child Traumatic Stress Network www .NCTSN.org http://nctsn.org/sites/default/files/assets/pdfs/military_grief_medical.pdf