Reporting from Ft. Bragg, N.C. --
Day after day, the widows sit silently in court, a few feet from the soldier accused of murdering their husbands. They listen as their husbands' violent deaths play out again and again in witness testimony. Sometimes, they say, the defendant stares at them with a contempt that both terrifies and enrages them.
The two women have found solace and support in their shared ordeal.
They sometimes finish each other's sentences. Barbara calls Siobhan "my life partner." Siobhan calls Barbara "my faux spouse."
They did not meet until Phillip Esposito's wake but they are now inextricably linked, soul mates for life. Each says she could not have persevered without the other.
he women, in seeking justice for their husbands' deaths, spend weeks at a time away from their children.
Their determination has cost them about $15,000, which they have paid out of their savings and private donations.
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