1st Sgt. Travis Twiggs wife hears of death on the news

Lily Casura is doing what a good reporter should do if they really care about the suffering of veterans more than getting the story in print and then dropping it as if the person really didn't matter at all. Well they did matter. They matter to their family, friends, neighbors and everyone else they came into contact with. Those who served with them have had tributes to him. Those who tried to help him in the VA have paid tribute to him. Yet we would know none of this if not for the tireless efforts of Lily. Now we know his wife did not even know he died or how he died until she saw the report on the news. How very sad it is that a hero falls due to wounds and the media finds nothing wrong with not giving us the rest of the story.

May 19, 2008
The Tragic Last Days of Travis "T-Bo" Twiggs:
Well, the national reporting on this story that we broke on Tuesday of last week has finally dribbled in – some of it good, most of it painfully mediocre – and none of it frankly enlightening, if you’ve been following his story here. (And btw, CNN hasn't covered it yet, though logically at some point they will have to, if only to keep up with the Joneses. It's pretty embarrassing to see what they deem worth covering instead, versus treating this American hero's death with any coverage at all.
Here is a slate of what CNN deemed more worthy of coverage just today (the breathless exclamation points are mine, but they seem in keeping with the "Mad magazine meets Entertainment Tonight!" reportage topics -- or is it becoming, "News of the World," with a little political commentary thrown in? More worth covering than Travis Triggs, four tours of duty and PTSD sufferer, we have: "Cancer survivor pitches no-hitter!" "Photographer snaps own javelin-spearing!" "Autistic boy, 13, banned from church!" "Wealthy Town Wants Its Own Currency!" and best/worst of all: "Yearbook [staff] switches kids' heads, bodies [in yearbook]!" I'm firmly convinced CNN is now staffed by 13 year old boys, who consider anything they'd talk about on at a sleepover camp, and how they'd talk about, to be the rule of thumb for how they choose the news.

A hard shock in the recent, actual news coverage about Travis Triggs was learning that his wife, Kellee, though she knew her husband was deeply troubled by PTSD, didn’t realize he was in Arizona, and didn’t learn that he killed himself, until she saw it on a news report. That has to just add to the horror of the whole situation. (At the end of this entry, we'll share some nice things people have been saying in Travis Twiggs' memory, about the man and the Marine.)
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http://www.healingcombattrauma.com/2008/05/t-bo-twiggs-tra.html