AKRON, Ohio — Peggy Buryj might be a phone call away from answering the great mystery of her life.
But she hesitates.
Buryj thinks she knows the name of an American soldier who killed her son, Jesse, in a friendly-fire incident in Iraq on May 5, 2004.
According to a soldier who was there, the bullet came from the gun of a man who is still in the U.S. Army and living in Italy.
But knowing that has not brought her comfort. Instead, the Canton woman has concluded there’s nothing she can do about it.
So the agony and the grieving continue after eight long years. She often feels lonely, even among other Gold Star mothers, because her circumstances and pain are unusual. She doesn’t even celebrate military holidays like other survivors.
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