Monday, May 09, 2011

Mother: 'I just wanted to know what happened'

Her son died of non-combat injuries at end of his Afghan tour

By ROBERT STANTONHOUSTON CHRONICLE

May 8, 2011, 8:04PM

Army Spc. Riley S. Spaulding had just finished his Afghanistan tour and was about to returned to Germany, then back to Texas.

But somehow — no one yet knows how — Spaulding was killed in a non-combat incident.
"I just wanted to know what happened," Micki Spaulding said of her 21-year-old son, of Sheridan, about 70 miles west of Houston. "But they couldn't tell me."

Read the entire story: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7555752.html.

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