The widow of Marine Sgt. Michael Ferschke Jr. paid a visit to Camp Pendleton last month to show her young son to the Marines who served with his father before his death in Iraq.
Now those same Marines are supporting an effort to let Hotaru Nakama Ferschke stay in America with her 8-month-old son, Michael "Mikey" Ferschke III.
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A bill in the House introduced by a Tennessee Rep. John J. Duncan Jr. would allow Ferschke's widow and son to remain in the U.S. This week, Sen. James Webb of Virginia introduced a similar bill in the upper house...>>>
Mrs. Ferschke and their son were recently a part of the most recent airing of "In Their Boots", along with another wife of a veteran of Iraq, who is facing deportation as an illegal immigrant. That episode is below or at the site:
“Second Battle” is the wives of two U.S. service members who cannot stay in the country their husbands proudly served — and in one case died for.
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