March 30, 2011 
Stars and Stripes|by Megan McCloskey
Late that night, after the notification officer had picked her up from her knees and carried her into the house, the young newlywed wrote on her blog what she couldn’t yet convince herself was true.
RIP My Sweet Husband
I never thought this would happen to me.
I lost my husband, but Heaven gained a damn good Marine.
I am so proud of you Chad. I am truly at a loss for words.
Katie Wade was married at 18 and a war widow at 20.
Her blog, "Starting our New Lives Together: The Wades," created so she and her husband, Cpl. Chad Wade, could one day look back on their early years of marriage, turned into an outlet for her grief.
Since a roadside bomb in Afghanistan killed Chad on Dec. 1, Katie has shared with the world her trials of widowhood in a raw, confessional diary. She is one of many in this generation of
war widows who have carved a slice of the Internet to vent as they cope with the loss of their husbands.