The knock at the door. The shock and grief that followed. An absence that lasts a lifetime. Much of the country grew weary of the longest war in U.S. history years ago. But for the hundreds of children who lost parents in Afghanistan, the conflict that began 26 days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks will never really end. They continue to pay the cost of war with the cheers they won't hear from the soccer sidelines, the hugs they won't get at their graduations, the arms they won't clasp down the aisle at their weddings. Here are 14 portraits of those children, one for each year of a war that has claimed 2,351 U.S. servicemembers' lives since 2001. Those profiled range in age from 6...
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