war widow


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a woman whose husband has died in war

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Prof Angela Smith from Sunderland University has studied the policing of war widows, examining 200 cases in the National Archives.
Ahmednagar (Maharashtra): This is one war widow of Ahmednagar cast in the mould of her husband Kondaji Lakshman Malunjkar, who was killed in the 1965 India-Pakistan war.
Following a successful campaign led by the War Widows Association of Great Britain, new rules were introduced last year which mean pensions are now awarded for life - but the change only applies to those widowed after April 1, 2015.
Undertaker Paul Hopper, who helped lay the war widow to rest last week, said: "The cost of funerals is going up and up - people just can't afford a service for their loved ones."
Jeffrey Stayton's This Side of the River is a book unlike any other you are likely to encounter this year; it's an offbeat story presenting a unique take on Confederate war widows and their desire for revenge.
"You Are Not Forgotten: A Family's Quest for Truth and the Founding of the National League of Families" chronicles the story of one war widow who spent more than eight years unsure of the status of her dear husband.
16, #7) that a TV play called The War Widow was finally available.
This paper examines the lived experience of war widows. It uses case study material from war widows to explore how the category 'war widow' is taken up albeit reluctantly by one Vietnam war widow and considers why this might differ from other widows' experiences.
Xuan Nguyen, a Eugene woman who came to the United States from Vietnam in 1974, was the field translator and a war widow interviewed in "Regret to Inform," Barbara Sonneborn's award-winning documentary on American and Vietnamese war widows.
African women--the refugee, war widow, single mother, leader--recounted moving tales that affirmed their faith in life.
A wound suffered in the war has rendered him impotent and unable to consummate his love for Lady Brett Ashley, an English war widow. Although Jake is a typical manly Hemingway hero in his mastery of trout fishing and his appreciation of bullfighting, his physical flaw makes him a more rounded character than most of the Hemingway heroes that followed.
AN elderly war widow has been ordered to repay the Ministry of Defence pension payments of PS131,000.
"Someone once shouted, 'You don't look like a f***ing war widow to me'."
Lest we forget: Penelope Keith with war widow Jacqui Thompson.