Mike and Marie McClung, parents of Marine Maj. Megan McClung, stand next to the "brag wall" they created in their Coupeville, Wash. Marie holds a quilt similar to those she has made for the numerous babies that strangers have named "Megan" after her daughter.Legacy of female major killed in Iraq growsBy Mike Barber - Seattle Post-Intelligencer via The Associated Press
Posted : Wednesday May 28, 2008 7:10:46 EDT
COUPLEVILLE, Wash. — After they received the hard news of their daughter’s death in Iraq in December 2006, Mike and Re McClung cloaked themselves in solitude, declining requests for interviews.
But then, Re McClung says, “We had a visitation.”
From a dream, a sense, an energy, a voice, Re heard her dead daughter clearly tell the couple to break their silence.
“She said, ‘Mom, there’s something you want to say; you better take your sound bite,’” Re McClung says of the experience.
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Women also have returned in greater numbers with traumatic brain injury, amputations, burns and post-traumatic stress disorder. Veterans medical centers now have special women’s clinics, treating not only war injuries, but also the damage inflicted physically and mentally by sexual assault from fellow male troops.Rest of article at:
http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/05/ap_mcclung_052708/