In the last 10 years, we’ve lost over 7,800 service members in Iraq and Afghanistan.
All of them left behind someone–parents, siblings, children, friends–who loved them. Approximately half of them were married.
Here are the stories of two of our almost 4,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war widows.
This Memorial Day, let’s honor, along with our fallen soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, their families. They, too, have served and sacrificed on our behalf.
For more stories, please visit The American Widow Project’s Our Stories page.
A good reminder. Thank you for posting this.
A quote from Milton?
Yes! You get a gold star by your name on the wall chart! :0)
It’s from his poem “On His Blindness,” which deals with his own blindness. I took it a little out of context–it actually is a powerful statement of the value of people with disabilities.
We had to memorize the poem in high school and I always saw the quote as serving of God’s will as we walk through life.