Cemetery-Plot.com » Military Cemeteries http://www.cemetery-plot.com Articles, News and Information About Buying and Selling Cemetery Property Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:41:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Mom fights to be buried with soldier son http://www.cemetery-plot.com/2009/12/mom-fights-to-be-buried-with-soldier-son/ http://www.cemetery-plot.com/2009/12/mom-fights-to-be-buried-with-soldier-son/#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:00:19 +0000 nmclain http://www.cemetery-plot.com/?p=589 Fallen Soldier Corey Shea

WASHINGTON – Denise Anderson lost her only son in the Iraq war. She’s determined not to lose her fight to be buried with him in a national veterans cemetery.

Army Spc. Corey Shea died Nov. 12, 2008, in Mosul, with one about a month left on his tour of duty in Iraq. [...]]]> Fallen Soldier Corey Shea

Fallen Soldier Corey Shea

WASHINGTON – Denise Anderson lost her only son in the Iraq war. She’s determined not to lose her fight to be buried with him in a national veterans cemetery.

Army Spc. Corey Shea died Nov. 12, 2008, in Mosul, with one about a month left on his tour of duty in Iraq. He was buried at the Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne, about 50 miles from his hometown of Mansfield, Mass.

A grieving Anderson, 42, soon hit an obstacle in her quest to be buried in the same plot with her son. That chance is offered only to the spouses or children of dead veterans; Corey Shea was 21, single and childless.

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