SACKETS HARBOR â Diana M. Meredith is surrounded by around 100 people at the military cemetery this weekend, watching the full honors being given to her husband before she got up there to sing, coming after he fought PTSD and died by suicide in May.
Garrett E. Meredith, a 25-year-old Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan, and graduated from Sackets Harbor Central School in 2014, died by suicide on May 24. Mrs. Meredithâs friends and family stood in awe then, and they stood in awe at the cemetery on Saturday, looking at her strength as she spoke openly about her husbandâs PTSD after he left the Army. The two met just a few years after they were 10 years old, at the Sackets school where they gravitated effortlessly, according to her, their friends and their teachers. She described it as a once-in-a-lifetime love in the days after he died, and she did so again on Saturday.