Bush Makes Promise

I've seen the report on this incident, there's no good reason why the parents shouldn't be able to see the info if they so desire. It's a shame that the President of the United States has to get involved just so these folks can get closure.

Bush Makes Promise to Dead Soldier's Mom
Says He'll Get Her Reports on How Son Died

CLINTONVILLE, Wis. (Aug. 12) - Nearly three years ago, Beth Karlson's son died in Iraq. Barely a day after meeting with President Bush, the mother said Friday that she's much closer to getting some answers about the incident that killed her son...Karlson, 63, said that during her and her husband's "very personal" meeting with the president, she brought up her frustration in obtaining the official Army report about the crash.

Karlson said Bush promised that he would look into the matter and get her the reports...

..."It was a very private meeting and that is the way we want to keep it," she said Friday. "He is a wonderful man. How many other presidents have sat down with the families? None that I know of."

Hansen is one of 58 members of the U.S. military from Wisconsin killed in Iraq since the war was launched in March 2003. At least 2,595 members of the U.S. military have died in the war, according to an Associated Press count.

Karlson, a retired school food services manager, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Bush greeted her with a "great big bear hug," gave her a presidential coin, signed a scrapbook she has about her son and constantly held her hand during the meeting that lasted at least 20 minutes.