As it turned out, she was already at home on the November night when the Marines came to say that her 22-year-old son, Cpl. Nicholas Ziolkowski, had been killed.
"They stayed as long as I wanted them to stay," she said. But "there was nothing they could do except sit and tell me how sorry they were."
Still, said Ms. Miller, the Marines who came to her house "really were wonderful."
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