Widow of first servicemember to die in Afghanistan War still struggling with loss, VA
July 10, 2012
Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Ross Chapman, 31, was killed January 4, 2002 in an ambush, becoming the first U-S soldier to die from hostile fire in Afghanistan.
/ Fort Lewis Public Affairs Office/Getty Images (CBS News) Renae Chapman, the wife of the first American servicemember to be killed in the Afghanistan War, said the ten years since his death has been "really tough."
Chapman said she wishes "she could say it gets better, but it doesn't."
Her husband, Sergeant First Class Nathan Ross Chapman was a member of the special forces and was killed in Afghanistan less than three months
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