Gold Star Spouses Describe Pain of Losing Bereavement Benefits in Remarriage
This Dec. 16, 2014, photo shows the wedding photo of Army widow, Aimee Wriglesworth, and her late husband, Chad, on display in her home in Bristow, Va. Wriglesworth lost her husband, an Army Major to cancer in 2013. Steve Helber/AP
9 May 2021
For Gold Star spouses, the pain of losing their husbands in the line of duty can be almost unbearable.
But sometimes, after widows and widowers of fallen service members have grieved and moved forward with their lives to find love again, they find themselves facing a difficult choice: whether to marry and lose the survivor benefits the government granted them to compensate for the loss of their spouses.