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Scenario

How to combine military and indigenous funeral honors

My son died in Iraq and I want to honor him with both military honors and our traditional warrior funeral rites but the timing conflicts and I can't figure out how to weave them together respectfully.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

When two honor systems that shaped someone's life create competing claims in death, love must find a way to serve multiple forms of recognition.

Your guide for this
Mira
Mira works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Indigenous grief ceremonies?”

Peri

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