Single Mother by War

Over 3,000 children have lost a parent in the Iraq War. NPR profiled a woman who found out her finacee died in a helicopter crash just weeks before she was going to have their son. Now, the boy is six months old and the mother is thinking about how she is going to explain his father's death to him. The story focuses on the politics of the war and how it has affected communities.

In the end, the mother said she would love to know why her fiancee had to die for this war. I got very sad listening to her speak because I realized how many other widows had to raise a child on their own. The personal toll the war takes is always the hardest to deal with.

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