Military families frustrated by military death notification

[ikojo]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/11/28/sprj.irq.dreaded.visit.ap/index.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Catherine Perusse remembers the chilling call she and husband Ted got one recent Tuesday. The military phoned to tell them their son, Robert T. Benson, of Spokane, Washington, had been badly wounded in Iraq and transferred to a hospital in Kuwait. Surgery had gone "as planned."

That's the last thing the family heard until 20 hours later when they were told he was dead.

[VolcanoJen]

1. LBN Rules... locking

The Rules of the Latest Breaking News Forum require that a poster use the exact title of the linked-to article in their subject line. In this case, the subject line should read "How families learn of military deaths in Iraq."

This is a very interesting and newsworthy article, ikojo, and I hope you'll repost it in LBN using the correct subject line.

Thanks!
VolcanoJen
DU Moderator