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As Iraq inches closer to civil war and recent violence threatens to undo years of U.S. peacekeeping efforts, one Marine widow says it's too much to bear.
SOUNDBITE: Karen Navarrete-Bell saying (English):
"How I feel about it now, and I feel like it's devastating, what's going on over there, but again, I feel like a high price has been paid already."
Karen Navarrete-Bell's husband, Marine Staff Sergeant Vincent J. Bell served three deployments to Iraq and died during his second deployment to Afghanistan in 2011.
Vincent Bell was awarded a Purple Heart for his service, and his surviving spouse says seeing the outbreak of violence sometimes leads her to question U.S. involvement in the Middle Eastern nation.
SOUNDBITE: Karen Navarrete-Bell saying (English):
"There are times when I feel like 'well look at all these lives that have been lost? what were we there for in the first place? Look at where i
