Carlos Arredondo (left) held a boot yesterday representing his son, Alexander, who died fighting in Iraq. Standing beside him were Joyce and Kevin Lucey, whose son Jeffrey killed himself after returning from the war in Iraq.
(Michele McDonald/Globe Staff)
Rally's veterans, activists seek to avoid glorifying war
Hold different Memorial Day observance
Carlos Arredondo (left) held a boot yesterday representing his son, Alexander, who died fighting in Iraq. Standing beside him were Joyce and Kevin Lucey, whose son Jeffrey killed himself after returning from the war in Iraq.
(Michele McDonald/Globe Staff)
The night before he hanged himself with a garden hose in the basement of his parents' home, Jeffrey Lucey asked if he could sit on his father's lap. For the better part of an hour, Kevin Lucey quietly held his 23-year-old son, an Iraq war veteran who had returned depressed and deeply ashamed of what he said was his brutal ... (Full article: 767 words)
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