U.S. Soldier in Iraq May Get to Visit Dying Mother

[54anickel]

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=domesticNews&storyID=4913921§ion=news

CHICAGO (Reuters) - A Wisconsin woman who may have only a month to live got some good news on Thursday -- the U.S. Army apparently will allow her son to leave Iraq for what could be a final visit with her.
"We heard from him this morning. He said that between the first (of May) and the 18th there was some ... leave going on and he was supposed to get home," Patrice Confer of Altoona, Wisconsin, said in a telephone interview.

Her 19-year-old son, U.S. Army Pvt. Joseph Wagner, is stationed in Tikrit. When Confer learned two weeks ago that she had pancreatic cancer that had spread to her liver, she sent a message through the Red Cross to her son's commanding officers asking that he be allowed to come home.

Her family later forwarded a letter from her doctor saying she may have just 30 days to live, a marker the military often uses in deciding if emergency leave will be granted in such cases. But she heard nothing positive until Thursday's telephone call.

[Mari333]

1. The kids mom is DYING for gods sake

Ill bet those assholes send him right back into that hellhole in Iraq
bastards!

[54anickel]

2. Yep, he only gets to come home for 2 weeks.

[bucknaked]

3. "MAY" get to visit? for Chrissake?

This Soldier should have been back in IL by the time my post registers.

[Moderator]

4. Duplicate, please discuss here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x504152