
Parents of slain soldiers visit Iraq
by
Roland, the Gunslinger
on Sat 30 Dec 2006 03:18 PM EST

"I wanted to go see where my son died," she said. "You hear in the news how bad Iraq is, that it isn't worth saving. ... I wanted to go find out for myself."...
...There, they said, their sons were treated as liberators and the parents welcomed as heroes.
Many told the families their sons were martyrs, a term that at first seemed offensive to some.
"Until I understood the meaning of what a martyr was, it was kind of a slap in the face," Jan said. "But they weren't comparing them to suicide bombers. I realized they were comparing them to heroes."
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