CBS’s Kimberly Dozier reported this morning on the sacrifices being made by war widows at Fort Hood Army base in Texas. Fort Hood has lost more 400 soldiers — nearly 10 percent of the total military deaths since the war began — “leaving behind approximately 200 widows.” One widow told Dozier, “For those who are kind of in their own little world and forget that there’s other people out there making sacrifices, it’s kinda nice to just shake them up a little bit and go ‘hey, appreciate what you have.’” Watch it:
On Memorial Day in 2006, Dozier herself was nearly killed by a roadside bomb while reporting in Baghdad. Two of her colleagues — CBS soundman James Brolan and cameraman Paul Douglas — died in the blast.
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