Old Enough Now to Hear How a Parent Died at War
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In a grim marker of the longevity of the Iraq war, children too young to remember losing a parent in action are growing up.
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The grim monotony of waiting had been punctuated only by stomach-churning sounds &#151; the clatter of gunfire, the boom of grenade launchers. Then came an announcement that gripped parents with a forgotten emotion: Hope.
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A 45-year-old woman collapsed and died days after learning her son had been killed in Iraq, and just hours after seeing his body. Results of an autopsy were not immediately released, but friends of Karen Unruh-Wahrer said she couldn't stop crying over losing her 25-year-old son, Army Spc. Robert Oliver Unruh, who was killed by enemy fire near Baghdad on Sept. 25.
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Families of those killed or injured when a Glasgow factory blew up hear in detail how the tragedy unfolded.
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At 11:33 am yesterday, in a mist of rain and confetti, a boy and his father watched history being made. The boy was 45 years old, his dad 77.
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Last year, children's voices echoed across ground zero. This year, it is the bereaved parents and grandparents of World Trade Center victims who will read aloud the names of those lost on Sept. 11, 2001.
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News that the Pentagon wants to double death benefits for families of U.S. troops killed in Iraq reminded Tracy Miller, whose son, Marine Cpl. Nicholas Lee Ziolkowski, died there in November, of an old summer-camp yarn:
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He was 19 and they called him "Youngun." The tank commander said: "Get your butt out there." So he went out to search for the enemy. When he came back a few hours later, he discovered the bodies. A shell had exploded while his buddies were fixing lunch. They were dead.
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MONTREAL (CP) - The mother of one of four Canadian soldiers killed in a mistaken U.S. bombing in Afghanistan will represent all bereaved parents at the national Remembrance Day ceremony.
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LAWTON, Okla. - A 72-year-old great-grandmother is preparing for deployment to the war zone in Iraq and will become one of the oldest Department of Defense civilian workers in the war zone.
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The Monitor revisits a couple whose daughter and her family died in an Israeli airstrike during the war with Hizbullah.
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Should parents talk to their dying children about death? A Swedish study found that parents whose children died of cancer had no regrets about talking to them about death, while some who didn&#39;t do so were sorry later.
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Relatives of the Black Watch soldier killed during the controversial military deployment from Basra have spoken of their devastation at his death.
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BOISE, Idaho  - Tom Titus experienced the shock of  watching his best friend die in his arms during the Vietnam War  in 1971.
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Should parents talk to their dying children about death? A Swedish study found that parents whose children died of cancer had no regrets about talking to them about
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A Las Cruces couple is mourning the loss of their son, who was killed this week in Iraq. 39 year old Army National Guard Sergeant Christian Engeldrum was killed outside Baghdad when a roadside bomb ripped through his Humvee.
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Ali Rmeity lies broken and bandaged on a hospital bed, wincing in pain. Three of his children and his parents are dead &#151; but he doesn't know all that yet. Doctors fear telling the 45-year-old now would be a bigger blow than he can sustain.