Her mother shook. Her brother's eyes filled with tears. At the front door loomed the shadows of an Army officer and chaplain.
Nicole Hart, wife of Sgt. David J. Hart, serving a second tour with the Army's 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, stared in stony disbelief.
"On behalf of the secretary of defense," the female officer told her Jan. 8, the day of her husband's death, "we regret to inform you ..."
Hart's grief - and support from an online group of young military widows - is the subject of a documentary that will be screened today in Culver City.
"We Regret to Inform You," a three-part interactive Webcast produced by the Brave New Foundation's "In Their Boots" series, will then air online starting Wednesday.