...suffer from the GWOT. Being immersed in the military community that's easy to forget - we have the mechanisms in place, and subliminal emotional prepardeness for sudden death.
First responder families do too - if a little different.
Here's one such story, from a sister who writes letters to her brother - a FDNY firefighter who died on 9/11.
Thanks to the Flea for pointing it out to me.