Crissie Carpenter was eight months pregnant and unable to travel in February of 2011. She couldn't spend a last day with her husband before he died in a German hospital. He had been shot in Afghanistan and died five days later.
Her son Landon was born in March, never to know his Marine Corps dad.
Her husband, Lance Cpl. Andrew Carpenter, was one of thousands of Americans who were killed in Afghanistan. Now that the Taliban they fought have taken over the country, many can't help asking if they died for nothing.
Crissie Carpenter has some thoughts about that. She doesn't think so. She shares her own perspective on her husband's service here.
from "They Protected Us: A Gold Star Wife's Moving Afghanistan Message"
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