Here's how one group of American mothers tries to cope with the reality that their boys may never come home from this conflict: they've started up a support group.
When they're not together, they spend a lot of time with the TV.
You might want to wait until you get home to watch this if you're somewhere you can't cry. (Unless you're not prone to such behavior and there's no risk of that happening.) It's a tear jerker.
This is from NBC Nightly News, March 26, 2003.
On The Homefront in Phoenix (Small - 6 MB)
On The Homefront in Phoenix (Hi-res - 66 MB)