Mourning a Loved One Lost to War

Pauline Laurent

Nearly 600 men and women from California have died in Iraq and Afghanistan since those wars began. Each loss has a profound and lasting effect on families and friends. Over the past few months, we spent time talking with military family members about the death of a loved one in the current wars. First we hear from a widow who lost her husband in another war -- and still deals with that grief four decades later.