The true cost of war comes home

Her mother shook. Her brother's eyes filled with tears. And at the front door loomed the shadows of an Army officer and chaplain. Dana Bartholomew in the Daily News.

Nicole Hart, wife of Sgt. David J. Hart, serving a second tour in Iraq, stared in stoney disbelief.

"On behalf of the secretary of defense," the woman officer told her Jan. 8, the day of her husband's death, "we regret to inform you ..."

Hart's grief - and support from an online group of young military widows - is the subject of a documentary that will be screened Monday in Culver City.