Gold Star Wives Eager to Lend Helping Hand to Military Widows

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The Vietnam War turned Linda Petric into a widow in 1969 -- leaving her to raise three small children in a world with few resources for single mothers.

Army Maj. John Petric was killed in a mortar attack in South Vietnam's Kien Hoa province that also claimed the lives of four of his men. It was a devastating blow, but somehow the 31-year-old mother carved out a career as an educator and raised three children of whom her late husband, she's convinced, would be very proud today.

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Gold Star Wives Eager to Lend Helping Hand to Military Widows

"You've got a job to do and you just do it," she explained. "I wasn't going to let John down."

The 72-year-old Kettering grandmother only wish...

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