Widow: Fragging death not Army’s fault

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Widow: Fragging death not Army’s fault
By Russ Bynum - The Associated Press
Posted : Thursday Oct 16, 2008 6:03:45 EDT

FORT STEWART, Ga. — A month after the Army told Brandi Durbin her husband was killed in Iraq by a soldier in his own unit, she carries a framed photo of him everywhere she goes. It’s one way of keeping him close to soothe her grief.

“People think I’m crazy, because I have to take it out of my purse to get my wallet,” Durbin said Wednesday. “But it does the job for me.”

Durbin met with reporters Wednesday at Fort Stewart to speak about her husband, Sgt. Wesley Durbin, for the first time since he was fatally shot Sept. 14 along with his squad leader, Sgt. Darris Dawson, at their patrol base south of Baghdad.

The Army has charged Sgt. Joseph Bozicevich, who served under Dawson and alongside Durbin, with killing them both with a rifle.

Brandi Durbin, who lives in Springfield, Ga., said she’s been told little about the case, but doesn’t blame the Army.


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