The ‘stuff’ that people die to save
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The deaths of 19 firefighters battling a wildfire in Arizona is, of course, beyond sad.
"It's only stuff," people like to say -- and appropriately so -- when homes burn but people make it out alive.
So it was particularly painful to watch a young widow on CBS this morning assess the life of her late husband.
"I think probably in that last moment, we have four babies. He's selfless, and I think he thought of our kids and he thought of wishing he was home with them at that moment. He saved a lot of homes that people do go home to, but he'll never come home to ours," Juliann Ashcraft said.
She earlier talked to the Today Show.
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