Showing posts with label Casualty Notification Soldiers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Casualty Notification Soldiers. Show all posts

Monday, December 01, 2008

Some of the Other Realities of War..

A visitor no family wants

A knock at the door … two soldiers in Class A uniforms standing outside. It’s something every family of a deployed soldier dreads.


And The Family

Donovan Brooks / Special to Stripes
Avery Gamboa, 4, places a flower on his father's grave


Alone and left to plan a new future

Spouses of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan who want to stay in their overseas homes face a complex set of requirements to remain longer than the typical 90-day limit following a spouse’s death, military officials said. Donovan Brooks / Special to Stripes
The grave of Army Staff Sgt. Joseph D. Gamboa on Guam, where his wife and five children moved a few months after he was killed in Iraq.