The Military Funeral—”Taps Doesn’t Harden You. It Breaks You.”
When it’s time to bury a Marine, feelings of pride and admiration can’t always supersede the other emotions that can topple everything.
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DonateMaggie Seymour served as an active duty intelligence officer in the Marine Corps from 2008-2017, when she transitioned to the reserves. She now lives in South Carolina where she works as a researcher. She is currently pursuing a master’s in journalism at the University of Missouri.
When it’s time to bury a Marine, feelings of pride and admiration can’t always supersede the other emotions that can topple everything.
She was set— a Marine Corps officer enrolled in a PhD program and headed to a new duty station on the West Coast. But then she woke up in a jail cell with her world falling apart.
Maggie Seymour set out on a cross-country run to reconnect with herself and find the ground under her feet. Along the way she found a sense of home.