Perspective: Parents of Slain GIs Travel to Iraq

Justin Johnson

LYERLY, Ga. Dec 26, 2006 (AP)— After her son Justin was killed serving in Iraq, a grieving Jan Johnson resolved to see the place where he died and to better understand why it happened.

Johnson and her husband, Joe, who also served in Iraq, were among a group of seven parents who lost children in the war who were picked to travel to northern Iraq in November as a scout team for a bigger trip next year.

"I wanted to go see where my son died," she said. "You hear in the news how bad Iraq is, that it isn't worth saving. … I wanted to go find out for myself."

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