
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Tiffany Bader says she wonders what she and her little girl will do.
Her husband, Staff Sgt. Daniel Bader, died in the crash of a Chinook helicopter in Iraq on Nov. 2.
“I’m in shock,” she said Monday. “It hasn’t hit me yet, that I’m not going to have a husband. That I’m a widow at 30. That my little girl is going to be raised without a father.”
But she said her husband had wanted to be in the military.
He joined the National Guard shortly after graduating from high school, going through basic training when he was 17 and joining the Army when he was 18.
“He loved it, absolutely loved the military,” his wife...