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“Every Veteran struggling with the mental and physical scars of war who die by suicide is another casualty of combat—so we need to put the same attention and resources towards keeping our soldiers safe on the battlefield as we do supporting them when they come home.” - Max Rose (Congressman and U.S. Army Combat Veteran)
Courtenay: While the family history isn’t totally clear on this, my mother Elizabeth thinks my namesake, my grandfather’s Brother Courtenay Maujer, Jr, who served as infantry in WWII, used to also play Taps on the bugle. I know I would have loved to have heard Courtenay play the bugle. When I was still in the Navy myself I stood Funeral Honors Detail, and even though the music from the bugle was pre-recorded because they didn’t have a professionally trained bugle player, it was still hauntingly beautiful. I personally get goosebumps and tears in my eyes every single time I hear it, as do many others I have spoken to, when relating to their emotional connection to the melody. I have a little interesting ‘history,' in my background. My birthmother Paulette Butler’s father, my grandfather, served during WWII in the U.S. Army Air Corps. My great-great-great-grandfather James Edmund Hood was a Drummer boy during the Civil War on the Union side. My grandfather Albert Weaver, was a U.S. Navy Submarine Commander during WWII and was profiled in the 1950s series ‘Silent Service’. My grandmother Isolde Weaver’s father, Pavel Kurakin, was captured by Germans during WWII and spent four years in a German POW camp. Charles Vincent was my 7th Great Grandfather (born in 1735/died in 1803). In 1775 he refused to sign the Articles of Association in Duchess County, New York. In October 1776, was arrested and sent to New Hampshire for confinement. After escape and brushes with the law, he sailed to New Brunswick, Canada.
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