generation of military widows to share love, sacrifice and survival. follow me. these events cause us to step outside of the comfort zone. the impact will affect us for the rest of our lives. moments where they can all reflect. followed by that time where they feel like they are living life to the fullest. my little sister wrote taryn. she wanted me to find other sisters. i went from being completely alone to not anymore. you see the world a different way. as widows we see our life a different way when we land. these military widows have given me a life again. they teach me so much and show me how far i ve come to know one day another widow is going to come along and they re going to be the one changing that widow s life. that s pretty amazing.
this weekend americans remember our fallen heros but for thousands of widows across the country, every day is their memorial day. karen davis lost her husband at 21 and then went to build a sisterhood for those like her determined to turn their grief into triumph and survival. that s why she s this week s cnn hero. my husband corporal michael davis was killed in baghdad, iraq. four years later people still don t know how to react when you say. hi. i m a widow. after the funeral i felt like everyone wanted to write off my grief due to young age. you re young. you ll get remarried. i wanted to talk about it with other widows. they won t judge me if i m laughing and tell me that i m grieving wrong. i just wanted to create what i was searching for and just hope that there were others that could come and help me build it too. i m taryn davis and i m a new
idea with shocked city officials. wednesday they gave him the okay to start. thursday construction began. we ve had just an enormous outpouring of generosity and help to get prepared to get back to this point. the city has been great. the city of job lynn allowed us a permit in record time. reporter: there s still no electricity in this part of joplin. the substation across the street remains in ruins. a generator powers the tools passersby continuing stop to offer encouragement and support. i just had two police officers stop by and say, we want to shake your hand, the first glimmer of hope that we ve really seen towards the town rebuilding. reporter: four nearby homes that collins built in the past year are in ruins. already he has at least six projects waiting to be rebuilt. my heart and prayers go out to everyone that did lose loved ones. i hate for it to come to something like this to bring business to the area. but i believe everyone around here will surprise
passengers had to be evacuated. scary moments obviously but apparently there are no injuries. just a few minutes ago we did watch a bus transport passengers from that plane to the delta terminals here in atlanta. we want to bring in on the phone, you were in a hotel that overlooks the runway as i m told. can you tell us exactly what you saw? caller: we were just out on the balcony of our hotel that overlooks the runway and we were just watching planes come in and then after one landed there was a big boom and just a line of smoke and then it looks like it turned off the runway and then the fire got a lot bigger. and then fire trucks went over and they started evacuating everybody. did you see any need for any ambulance or anything like that? caller: a bunch of ambulances and fire trucks went to it. i don t know if they needed them or just because of the fire. okay. thank you so much for that eyewitness account. we re trying to get official information from either the
built once before 17 years ago. on tuesday collins discussed the idea with shocked city officials. wednesday they gave him the okay to start. thursday construction began. we ve had just an enormous outpouring of generosity and help to get prepared to get back to this point. the city has been great. the city of job lynn allowed us a permit in record time. reporter: there s still no electricity in this part of joplin. the substation across the street remains in ruins. a generator powers the tools passersby continuing stop to offer encouragement and support. i just had two police officers stop by and say, we want to shake your hand, the first glimmer of hope that we ve really seen towards the town rebuilding. reporter: four nearby homes that collins built in the past year are in ruins. already he has at least six projects waiting to be rebuilt. my heart and prayers go out to everyone that did lose loved ones. i hate for it to come to something like this to bring busine