Bonnie Carroll of TAPS on the true meaning of Memorial Day
Most Americans treated Memorial Day as a long weekend. Bonnie Carroll spent it with thousands of surviving military families in Arlington. The Medal of Freedom recipient and founder of TAPS joins Paul to deliver a no-BS reality check: veterans are now dying by suicide and toxic exposure at three times the rate we saw at the height of the wars — and the country has stopped paying attention.
Memorial Day is not a sale. It's not a barbecue. It's a debt. In this special episode, Paul sits down with Bonnie Carroll — Medal…
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