Marine's pregnant wife shot while he was in Iraq

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YORK, Pennsylvania (AP) -- A Marine serving in a war zone in Iraq rushed back home to be with his pregnant wife Friday after she was wounded in an apparent random shooting in a supermarket parking lot.

"You can only imagine how it would make me feel, being where I was at," Lance Cpl. Justin Cook, 23, said.

The Marine was pulled from his combat unit in Falluja on Monday, and told his wife Julia, 21, had been shot in the head. She is due to deliver the couple's son in February.

Justin Cook said his mind raced at the news -- "a whole whirlwind of emotions, from anger (to) fear."

After three sleepless nights of travel, the Marine was at his wife's bedside Friday in the York Hospital intensive-care unit, where a nursing supervisor said she was in serious condition.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/19/marine.wife.shot.ap/index.html

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1. A hypothetical question has just occurred to me

What would happen if someone in the military lost a partner , leaving behind a young child/baby. Would the military release the spouse?

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2. Duplicate

you can add this article to the older thread from Nov 17th.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=997652