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Saving Veterans Lives | The Legacy of Nick Newby North Idaho Experience, February 26, 2025
'I'm not afraid' CDA Press, November 12, 2023
As the veteran walked away following their recent conversation, Theresa Hart thanked him for his service.
The man stopped and looked at Hart.
“You were worth it,” he said.
Hart carries those words with her.
“I was stunned. I will never forget that,” she said. “I will do my best every day to continue to be worthy of his service, of every veterans service and of my son’s sacrifice.”
Hart was the keynote speaker during the Veterans Day ceremony at McEuen Park Veterans Memorial Plaza hosted by American Legion Post 14.
A small crowd of about 75 people huddled close together during the brief ceremony, kept to about 20 minutes as strong winds whipped flags and rain started to fall.
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Women of the Year: Gold Star Mother Turns Son’s Death into Mission to Help Veterans Spokesman Review, September 21, 2019
Theresa Hart’s grief still shuts her down some eight years after her son was killed in Iraq. Her outlet for all that pain is to make sure other veterans get anything they need, for free, to ease their transition back to what most people know as normal.
Her son, Nicholas W. Newby, 20, of Coeur d’Alene, was killed on July 7, 2011, in Baghdad. He was a specialist with the 145th Brigade Support Battalion, 116th Calvary Heavy Brigade Combat Team out of Post Falls. The same roadside bomb killed Sgt. Nathan R. Beyers and injured Staff Sgt. Jason Rzepa, both also serving in the Idaho National Guard…
Gold Star Mom Channels Grief Into Helping Local Veterans KREM, November 9, 2018
It’s an honor that nobody wants: to become a Gold Star family.
Hart’s non-profit provides everything from food, to books, furniture, kid’s clothing and even medical equipment. All of it is donated and available to veterans free of charge.
Hart’s work is born of tragedy. In July 2011, her son Nicholas Newby was serving in Iraq with the Idaho National Guard near the end of his deployment, when Hart’s world changed forever.
Gold Star Mom Reaches Out to Help Veterans in the Community KXLY, March 5, 2015
When the brave men and women that serve our country during wartime come home, they sometimes return with wounds that aren’t always visible and all too often the new battles they face as civilians mean that simple things like, furnishing a home, seem nearly impossible.
In the summer of 2011, our country laid to rest a great man. Nicholas Newby and a fellow soldier were killed when their convoy hit a roadside bomb in Iraq.
“I feel his presence in this so much,” Theresa Hart said. “I don’t think I could have done this without him.”
