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Monday, May 31, 2004 memorial day What They Left Behind 
Rosemarie Dietz Slavenas in her living room in Rockford, Ill., with the stuffed bunny that belonged to her son, Brian, a 30-year-old pilot who died in November when his troop transport helicopter was shot down in Iraq. The upright piano was his 16th-birthday present. Ms. Slavenas said that her son played Chopin very well, and that his first instructor performed at the funeral. Ms. Slavenas says she is allowing herself a year to mourn. "The grief has been exhausting," she said. The mail does not help, either. After receiving numerous letters from a company offering air-safety workshops for pilots, Ms. Slavenas has finally decided to write the company a letter to let it know her son is dead. 
Kenneth Jerabek raises the Marine and United States flags every day on the flagpole he erected as part of a memorial to his son Ryan, an 18-year-old marine killed in battle in April. Students from his high school class planted the tree in the background. Mr. Jerabek, who lives in Oneida, Wis., was eager to receive his son's belongings from Iraq, but he did not anticipate how hard it would be to go through them. Family members worked their way through the first box, but stopped when they saw his white hat. They could go no further; not yet. "He was only there for four weeks," his father said. 
Paula Zasadny of Taylor, Mich., was so plagued with worry when her daughter left for Iraq that she started taking antidepressants. After Holly McGeogh, 19, died in a roadside bombing in Kirkuk in January, her mother's dosage was doubled. When Ms. Zasadny learned of her daughter's death, she desperately wanted her child's used laundry so she could smell her once more. She was heartbroken to learn that the military had washed all of Ms. McGeogh's clothing before sending it back to the family. But a returning soldier gave her a surprise gift, a bag filled with her daughter's unwashed clothes. as of memorial day, there have been 814 US fatalities in iraq. posted by downtown | 2:42 AM |
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