The Parents of the Fallen

at around evening time on Tuesday, the 26th of December 2006 by Chad

Been to Iraq? Some parents of fallen US soldiers have.

“I needed to make that trip,” said Bastian, who traveled with her husband, Todd. “All of us were very, very disappointed in the media coverage over the war. I had so many avenues that were telling me different, that there were good things happening in Iraq, that they were just reporting the bomb of the day.”

While they went to the Iraqi Kurd region, where it is safer than Washington DC, the experiences they had and the people they met tell the real story.