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The WWA campaign – backed by the Daily Express – wants justice for the women who were stripped of their pension when they remarried. In 2015 David Cameron changed the law so the pension was for life – but failed to backdate it, so 300 widows were excluded. Around 100 have since died. In a ridiculous anomaly the surviving women could be eligible for up to £7,500 a year if they divorce their partner and marry them again. Baroness Crawley – a vice-president of the WWA – tabled a questio...

As is the traumatic past of these women they are all war widows. kosovo once part of yugoslavia and then 20 years ago a theater of war. the manager and founder of the collective. pops by with their sundry lawn. he was just 3 months old when his father was killed in 1999 his mother was left with nothing except her 2 young children. 3 years later she founded an association called the widows of. which would later become a womens cooperative. it was really difficult convincing people in the village ...

Last month several real news outlets reported your political allies are raising funds explicitly to dig up dirt on journalists critical of you going into 2020. my guess its for some list of some kind, or one with dark intentions. and it all fits, since you started off by blacklisting muslim countries, moved on to pesky reporters that dared to do their job, and then, of course, theres the blacklist of all, all the black journalists, politicians, athletes, grieving war widows, and whole nations yo...

Rebuilding infrastructure, they are renovating all these ponds and lagoons, and now slowly business is thriving in this part of the country. >> anthony: the underlying discontent, the given reasons for the war. is there a sense that those problems are being addressed? >> janah: the war was very brutal, and people, after 30 years, everybody is tired of war. we have a very affected population; there are about 30,000 war widows, close to 25,000 orphan children, about 15,000 people who were land min...

Embrace that he cannot extricate himself from. even like the north korea dictator who has devastated that continent, separated families and presiding over gu logs. moments like this it seems more strange. >> yeah. it is strangely also predicta e predictable. i think we have two things going on. one is trumps fear of sacrifice. his lack of ability to understand sacrifice for a cause greater than yourself. he has contempt for veterans. this is something that is consistent. he was cruel to mccain, ...

Observation. rushed texts and tweets and quick exchanges on the phone. a letter is something that you sit down, you think about it, type it or write it. in abraham lincolns days, he wrote them. he question quite a few people. not on generals with whom he was displeased, but war widows and many, many more. and they carried lasting impact, didnt they? >> sure. i mean, one of the problems with the internet is that we rap out these quick messages. writing a letter long, makes you think. you have to ...

National security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. >> the history of memorial day and the tomb of the unknowns is intertwined with our nations history. it became a national holiday in 1971 but its origins go back to the civil war. it was originally called decoration day and began when war widows from the civil war began laying flowers and flags on the graves of union soldier may 5, 1866 they closed their shops in waterloo, new york and went out to decorate the graves of th...

Is there a sense that those problems are being addressed? >> janah: the war was very brutal, and people, after 30 years, everybody is tired of war. we have a very affected population; there are about 30,000 war widows, close to 25,000 orphan children, about 15,000 people who were land mine victims. from the government side, they are still a bit scared, that there may be war popping up again, but slowly now they are addressing issues, like employment-wise, opportunity-wise, and there are a lot of...

Been rebuilt. slowly, now they are focusing on rebuilding infrastructure, they are renovating all these ponds and lagoons, and now slowly business is thriving in this part of the country. >> anthony: the underlying discontent, the given reasons for the war. problems are being addressed? >> janah: the war was very brutal, and people, after 30 years, everybody is tired of war. we have a very affected population; there are about 30,000 war widows, close to 25,000 orphan children, about 15,000 peopl...

Discontent, the given reasons for the war. is there a sense that those problems are being addressed? >> janah: the war was very brutal, and people, after 30 years, everybody is tired of war. we have a very affected population; there are about 30,000 war widows, close to 25,000 orphan children, about 15,000 people who were land mine victims. from the government side, they are still a bit scared, that there may be war popping up again, but slowly now they are addressing issues, like employment-wis...