DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 11, 2026--
National nonprofit Carry The Load opened registration for its 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance, presented by Government Employees Health Association, Inc. (G.E.H.A). The initiative offers the public a chance to honor our nation’s heroes and the lives of those lost on Sept. 11, 2001, by providing volunteer opportunities at more than 140 cemeteries across the nation, including over 100 participating national cemeteries.
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In partnership with the National Cemetery Administration, the 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance will be observed nationwide on Saturday, Sept. 12 to allow maximum participation from the public. Volunteer activities revolve around beautification efforts at each cemetery, which are largely managed by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
“Carry The Load exists to actively connect people with the sacrifices made by our military, veterans, first responders and their families, and we believe the best way to do that is by being together in the community, practicing gratitude and remembering those who answer the distress call every day,” said Kathie Wood, CEO of Carry The Load. “We invite everyone – families, children, older adults, people of all backgrounds – to join us on Sept. 12 as we take action at the cemeteries where many of our nation’s heroes are resting.”
Registration for the 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance is officially open at CarryTheLoad.org. Registration and participation are free. This year marks the eighth year of the initiative for Carry The Load.
The public can also support first responders and their families by posting a tribute to a fallen first responder on Carry The Load’s virtual Tribute Wall or donate in their memory. All donations to Carry The Load support services and programs for military, veterans, first responders and their families, such as counseling and mental health access, suicide prevention, job placement and career coaching, adaptive training, scholarships for children of fallen heroes and more.
Since 2011, Carry The Load has raised $50M with 93% of every dollar going directly to programs that impact those in need.
“At G.E.H.A, we understand that service is more than a profession—it is a calling. For nearly 90 years, we have proudly served federal and postal employees, military retirees and their families, many of whom have dedicated their careers to strengthening and protecting our nation. That is why we are honored to present the National Day of Service and Remembrance, alongside Carry The Load. This initiative transforms remembrance into action, giving Americans the opportunity to honor those lost on Sept. 11 and celebrate the enduring spirit of service embodied by our military, veterans, first responders and public servants across the country,” said David Hakanson, President & CEO of G.E.H.A.
About Carry The Load
Carry The Load is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2011 by veteran U.S. Navy SEALs Clint Bruce and Stephen Holley. Carry The Load's mission is to actively connect Americans to the sacrifices made by our military, veterans, first responders, and their families. Carry The Load has earned a 4/4 Star rating on Charity Navigator and is a designated Combined Federal Campaign charity #20469. For more, visit www.CarryTheLoad.org. Connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
About G.E.H.A
Government Employees Health Association, Inc. (G.E.H.A) is a nonprofit member association that provides health and dental benefits that millions of federal employees and retirees, military retirees and their families have counted on since 1937. Offering one of the largest health and dental benefit provider networks available to federal employees in the United States, G.E.H.A empowers health and wellness by meeting its members where they are, when they need care. For more, visit www.geha.com or connect on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram.
Carry The Load 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance volunteers work to beautify Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery. (Photo courtesy of Carry The Load from Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery)
Lindsay Clancy messaged one of her caregivers less than two months before she killed her three young children in 2023 to say she was having “intrusive thoughts I never had before,” “feeling completely hopeless” and worried about becoming addicted to some medications.
Rebecca Jollotta, a psychiatric nurse practitioner at South Shore Health Perinatal Behavior Health Program, testified at the trial Tuesday she exchanged messages with Clancy regularly on a patient portal throughout in late November and December 2022. Much of their conversations revolved around Clancy reporting trouble sleeping, depressive symptoms she was having and her search for the right mix of medications to treat her symptoms.
Several times Clancy indicated to Jollotta either that she had not taken the full dose of a prescribed medication or that she wanted to reduce a dosage or change her prescription based on what she felt were intolerable side effects. Clancy also worried about being addicted to some medications like Ativan, but Jollotta said she was not.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, the national suicide and crisis lifeline in the U.S. is available by calling or texting 988.
“I really don’t like the way I feel on the Remeron and I know that I can’t stick with taking it,” Clancy said in a December message asking to switch from the antidepressant, which also is used to treat anxiety and insomnia, to a previous prescription mix. “I started having very intrusive thoughts that I never had before.”
Jollotta tried to assure Clancy that having intrusive thoughts is common with someone diagnosed with postpartum depression and anxiety and encouraged her to give the Remeron more time to work since she had only been on it a few days.
“This could be some postpartum anxiety. And I wanted to familiarize her with the symptoms, so that she had them written down and she could report them to me,” Jollotta said.
Jollotta, who is among several providers that Lindsay and her former husband Patrick Clancy have sued over her care, repeatedly came up with alternative treatment plans for Clancy including a range of different medications, behavioral therapy, support groups and meditation. But she acknowledged that it was up to Clancy whether she chose to follow her advice.
“I’m only making recommendations based on my education experience, training and what I’m seeing in terms of symptoms,” Jollotta said. “The patient has the autonomy.”
During their virtual and in-person visits, Jollotta said, Clancy never talked of having a plan to harm herself or her children. She also never showed signs of psychosis or mania.
But Jollotta acknowledged that Clancy did report having thoughts of suicide. She also suggested that Clancy might have underlying bipolar disorder — due to her days of going without sleep. But Patrick Clancy denied that was the case.
In mid-December, Jollotta had a call with the couple and was told Clancy had her “worst day” and was “having persistent, intrusive thoughts of suicide.” Jollotta suggested she consider a higher level of care such as that offered by Massachusetts General Hospital. She settled on the Women and Infants Hospital postpartum program in Rhode Island t but was soon discharged — with advice to stop taking one of her antipsychotic medication.
Jollotta, who was going on vacation, said she was concerned that Clancy had been discharged from the hospital, telling her in a message that she could “could benefit from the groups and added support separate even from medication changes.”
She was worried the hospital wanted Clancy to go off Seroquel, the antipsychotic medications. Clancy was advised this could lead to “worsening of mood, worsening of sleep,” but she insisted on going off the medication. Jollotta agreed to slowly reduce the dosage.
During cross-examination Clancy's attorney Kevin Reddington argued that Jollotta was not familiar with the care Clancy received elsewhere.
Jollotta never talked to one of Clancy’s psychiatrist, Dr. Jennifer Tufts, nor did she access Tuft’s medical records. She did not know how many times Clancy saw Tufts, noting that she only thought Tufts treated Clancy in September.
“Would it surprise you if I told you that she saw Dr. Tufts 14 times” during a four-month period ending in January, Reddington said.
Jollotta never talked to anyone from the Rhode Island hospital that admitted Clancy, nor did she have access to the records of McLean Hospital, a psychiatric facility that Clancy admitted herself into on New Year’s Eve.
“If you're treating a person through all of this stuff that we've talked about and it’s now apparent that things have decompensated so bad that they have voluntarily admitted her to a locked ward in a mental institution, is it important to Rebecca Jollotta to find out what the diagnosis and treatment was of their patient?” Reddington said.
Jollotta agreed it was but acknowledged that she never did find out.
Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged from 8 months to 5 years old. They were found in the basement of the family’s home in coastal Duxbury, Massachusetts, where their mother was lying in the yard. She had jumped from a second-story window, and she remains paralyzed from the waist down.
Prosecutors argue that the former labor and delivery nurse was an intentional killer who contrived to get her husband out of the house and then strangled the children with exercise bands on Jan. 24, 2023. Prosecutor Shanan Buckingham has urged jurors not to view the trial as “a public debate about women’s mental health and how the medical system treats women.”
Clancy’s attorneys do not dispute that she killed the children. But they say she should not be held criminally responsible because she was mentally ill, believing she heard voices ordering her to take their lives and her own.
The defense says she was in the grip of bipolar disorder and postpartum psychosis, a rare postpregnancy condition that can alter a woman’s sense of reality. A forensic psychiatrist diagnosed Clancy with those conditions after the killings.
Lindsay Clancy, listens, to Judge William F. Sullivan addressing the court during her murder trial in Plymouth Mass., on Tuesday Aug. 11, 2026 in Plymouth, Mass. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
Prosecutor Jennifer Sprague questions Dr. Jennifer Tufts about medication that Lindsay Clancy was prescribed, during Clancy's murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
Defendant Lindsay Clancy listens to Dr. Jennifer Tufts on the witness stand during her murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
Defendant Lindsay Clancy's mother Paula listens during her daughter's murder trial at Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (Greg Derr/The Patriot Ledger via AP, Pool)
Lindsay Clancy, and her attorney Kevin Reddington , listen to testimony from Rebecca Jollotta, during Clancy's murder trial in Plymouth Mass., on Tuesday Aug. 11, 2026 in Plymouth, Mass. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)
