Marine's parents soldier on with burden of grief, anger [View All]

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http://greenvilleonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050807/COLUMNISTS02/508070323/1004/NEWS01

Carolyn Hutchings' son didn't turn 23 last week.

Two years, four months and 15 days have passed since Marine Pvt. Nolen Ryan Hutchings, of Boiling Springs, was killed in Iraq on March 23, 2003.

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But also because of how long it took the military to tell her the truth, that something had gone wrong, and how long they took to investigate it.

And how even after a year of investigating, the military said they couldn't call it what she feels without a particle of doubt it was. Friendly fire.

Carolyn Hutchings believes there's been a deliberate pattern of dishonesty throughout, not just regarding her son's death or, for that matter, Pfc. Jessica Lynch's capture, which happened the same day at the same town, but from the beginning.

She means the war in Iraq itself.