4.06.2006
A Marine's Mother (WashingtonPost.com)
Wednesday, April 5, 2006; Page A21
Last August, Danielette James, 58, a federal custodian who cleans congressional offices five nights a week, unsuccessfully pleaded with her bosses for time off to welcome home her son, a Marine who was returning to Camp Lejeune, N.C., after seven months in Iraq.
In the end, James, unable to draw on the 172 hours of vacation time she had amassed, had to wait until a weekend for a two-day visit to North Carolina. (Her bosses at the Architect of the Capitol's office told The Washington Post at the time they had tried to meet her request.)
Over the weekend, the mother of six learned that her son, Eric McIntire, 27, had been killed by a roadside bomb near Baghdad.
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Last August, Danielette James, 58, a federal custodian who cleans congressional offices five nights a week, unsuccessfully pleaded with her bosses for time off to welcome home her son, a Marine who was returning to Camp Lejeune, N.C., after seven months in Iraq.
In the end, James, unable to draw on the 172 hours of vacation time she had amassed, had to wait until a weekend for a two-day visit to North Carolina. (Her bosses at the Architect of the Capitol's office told The Washington Post at the time they had tried to meet her request.)
Over the weekend, the mother of six learned that her son, Eric McIntire, 27, had been killed by a roadside bomb near Baghdad.
(More ... A Marine's Mother) ¶ 08:03
