[Shadow_Group] Fw: Mother Of GI Killed In Iraq Dies Of Grief

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Mother Of GI Killed In 
Iraq Dies Of Grief
10-5-4
 
TUCSON, Arizona (AP) -- A 45-year-old woman collapsed and died days after
learning her son had been killed in Iraq, and just hours after seeing his
body. 
  
Results of an autopsy were not immediately released, but friends of Karen
Unruh-Wahrer said she couldn't stop crying over losing her 25-year-old
son, Army Spc. Robert Oliver Unruh, who was killed by enemy fire near
Baghdad on September 25. 
  
"Her grief was so intense -- it seemed it could have harmed her, could
have caused a heart attack. Her husband described it as a broken heart,"
said Cheryl Hamilton, manager of respiratory care services at University
Medical Center, where Unruh-Wahrer worked as a respiratory therapist. 
  
Unruh, a combat engineer, had been in Iraq less than a month when he was
shot during an attack on his unit. 
  
Several days after learning of his death, his mother had gone to the
hospital complaining of chest pains, Hamilton said. She was feeling
better the next day but saw her son's body Saturday morning and collapsed
that night in her kitchen. 
  
Her husband, Dennis Wahrer -- also a respiratory therapist -- and other
family members performed CPR but Unruh-Wahrer was pronounced dead that
night. 
  
Autopsy results won't be released until relatives are notified, said Dr.
Bruce Parks, Pima County chief medical examiner. There was no immediate
response to a call to his office before business hours Tuesday. 
  
Robert Unruh will be buried Friday at the Southern Arizona Veterans'
Memorial Cemetery. His mother's body will accompany her son's in the
procession to the cemetery. 
  
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/10/05/soldiers.mother.ap/index.html<http://wwwcnn.com/2004/US/10/05/soldiers.mother.ap/index.html>

 
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