War Ends For Fallen, Not For Widows

Moving On: Project Helps War Widows Recover
NPR
by GLORIA HILLARD
September 25, 2014

"And I still have that voicemail, and I still listen to it seven and a half years later. I can't erase it," she says. "Just because that war is over, it doesn't mean that ours is over, like our journey is still continuing."

Members of the American Widow Project cheer at the end of an annual event in San Diego. The organization's mission is to help heal and empower participants.

In the kitchen of a beach house in San Diego a group of moms is preparing dinner.

The 13 women from all around the country have one thing in common - they lost their husbands in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

They are part of the American Widow Project, a support group for women whose husbands were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Defense Department estimates there are more than 3,200 military widows and widowers from those wars.

The women gather once a month in small groups for bonding and adventure.

For 34-year-old Danielle Schafer, much of the day her husband died remains hazy.
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