Davis is founder and executive director of the American Widow Project, a nonprofit organization that has provided more than 1,000 wives of deceased military members with resources for healing. She started the organization after losing her husband when she was just 21. She’ll be honored on Wednesday at Running Start’s “Women to Watch Awards” at the National Press Club. What prompted you to start the group?
Once you’ve hit rock bottom, the only direction you can go is up. That definitely applied to me. I felt like a statistic. After three months and things getting worse and worse, I was thinking about what my husband would have done. I knew I had to try to live for him until I could find a reason to live for myself. The average age of a service member killed in Iraq and Afghanistan is 26. I knew I wasn’t alone.
