The NY Times covered a sad byproduct of the Iraq War today. According to the Times, "children who were infants or toddlers when they lost a parent in action are growing up. In the process, they are coming to grips with death in new, more mature and at times more painful ways — pondering a parent they barely knew, asking pointed questions about the circumstances of the death and experiencing a kind of delayed grief."
You can read more about the story here.