Grieving Mom Fights Blackwater

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Mom Demands Answers From Blackwater
By Wayne Drash,
CNN
Posted: 2007-11-07 20:11:17
Filed Under: Iraq News
RITTMAN, Ohio (Nov. 7) - Donna Zovko walks to her son's grave. Tears stream down her face and she begins trembling amid a steady rain. She kisses her right hand and with it strokes her boy's headstone.

Three and a half years ago, she watched on TV as the bodies of her oldest son, Jerry Zovko, and three of his Blackwater colleagues were dragged through the streets of the Iraqi city of Falluja, burned and mutilated.

As horrifying as the pictures are, Donna Zovko -- a Catholic -- finds comfort in an image of her son's body before the mobs got to him. His eyes were closed, his mouth open, as if he were calling God "to take his soul."

"I just hope that he was referring to the Holy Mother or calling God to help him," she says, just steps from where her son is buried.

Donna Zovko also hopes that she will get some answers as to how -- and why -- her son died. Blackwater officials have not been forthcoming, she says.

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