Grief Recovery - Giving to Afghanistan to Move Past 9/11

The Afterlife: Coping With the Loss of a Son Through Giving

By Peter Trachtenberg
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the September 2007 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

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When her son Peter was killed on a hijacked plane on 9/11, Sally Goodrich concluded that life as she knew it was over. But then she found a new mission: building schools in, of all places, the harsh, violence-ridden land of Afghanistan.

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