Veteran Says Beloved Wife’s Cancer ‘Like Fighting a War At Home’

WILLIAMS, Ariz.—He could see it on the kitchen table in black and white, as plain as the Xerox paper on which it was printed. There was a dark spot on his wife’s lungs that was 2.25 inches in diameter and near her heart. Tom West, 55, stood quietly and looked at the medical image. But he wasn’t the same person he was a week earlier. His face was unshaven and his eyes were tired. His voice was trembling at times. He gazed out the window at his friend’s home in Williams, Arizona, and seemed lost. Holding on to his coffee cup, he confessed, “I am a wreck.”...