Senator wants Marines to explain why wounded troops weren't told the truth
Three people died and nearly a dozen were injured in a deadly accident that the military initially lied about, then buried
Elena Zurheide was relaxing at her home in Camp Pendleton, Calif., due to deliver her first child. It was April 12, 2004. On the other side of the world, her husband, Rob, lay dying.
A U.S. Marine mortar had sailed through the sky and dropped nearly on top of him, inside a dusty courtyard of a school in Fallujah, Iraq, where he and other members of his Marine unit were hunkered down, fighting insurgents.
But when a Marine officer came and knocked on Elena's door, he didn't say her husband and two others had been killed that day by a horrible mistake. He told her Rob was killed by enemy fire.
The Marines finally acknowledged it was friendly fire three years later, under pressure from Congress,
