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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.

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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.

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