was like mom, there s a white van in the driveway and i knew she had an adverse reaction to it because her voice started to get shaky and she just told me to stay upstairs until, you know, she had finished her business with the two men who arrived in our driveway that day in july and i remember once i had been told she called me downstairs and kept saying we re going to be okay, we re going to be okay and i was wondering what had happened. and she started off by saying, your father was a very brave man. and i automatically knew. and of course, i sobbed, but it was, you know, the first sob of many, but i like to think of the cries i do now as you know, more therapeutic and more of a release that s happy. and you just about have me sobbing, that s a powerful story, jenna, something we don t want to have happen to a ments no, absolutely not. mike: a young lady eight years old. wesley when did it hit you he
wasn t going to come home. it hit us that second. we couldn t believe it. it took a while for it to sink in and then, we were like, oh, my gosh, he s actually not coming back. he is gone. mike: how alone did you you feel, you and jenna? we felt alone and almost like it wasn t i wouldn t say not in our favor, but it felt like we weren t. we felt like there are good people in the world and that we wouldn t, we were being we weren t being rewarded for it and that this tragic thing happened to us and we just had our family, we had our mom and all of each other. mike: jenna, tell me how taps has helped me as a daughter and i could see how
other people. mike: and may i just say you are a remarkable young lady and. thank you. mike: your brother is terrific and i can t think of anybody who can better explain the value today. it s beautiful the way you ve described. and i hope our viewers will understand that taps is something that s available to you if you re a military family. and this is something you know you need, i hope you ll go to the screen, the make contact. if you want to help taps, they could use assistance and go to the website and make contribution and say look my family didn t have to go through this, but because we didn t, we want to help the ones who have. bonnie, sarah, jenna and wesley, thank you so very much. [applause] what a wonderful reminder on this memorial day weekend. our next guest has played piano and keyboards with the allman brothers band and rolling stones. chuck levelle.
victims of last week s deadly twister speaking at a memorial day service promising the nation will be with them every step of the way. and toured the devastation and reports of more than 130 people dead there and 39 remain missing at this hour and i m harris falkner, now, back to huckabee. we re back with bonnie carol, wesley jenna and talking about the taps program. jenna, i want to talk to you. when you learned where were you. we had just come home from vacation during the summer and wes and i had, we had unpacked our bags and excited to be home and yet back to the normal routine of summer and all of a sudden, i saw a white van pull up in the driveway and at the time i had no idea what that meant, but now i don t look at white vans the same way anymore, i remember i called my mom downstairs, i
cousins and close friends, amounts to 60,000 people with a common pain of losing someone close to them. taps, tragedy assistance programs for survivors, assures those loved ones they re not alone and through several peer-based programs gives them emotional support to cope with their loss. joining knee now is bonnie carol who founded taps after the death of her husband brigadier general tom carroll who died in an army plane crash in 1992. with us, sarah, jenna and wesley green, whose husband and father, david s green died in 2004 in iraq. well, thank you all for coming here on this memorial day weekend. bonnie, i want to start. you started taps because you experienced the loss of your husband in a plane crash in 1992. were there a lack of resources to help you beyond the day when they presented you the flag? back in the early 90s, there was no national program