NEWS & LETTERS, May-June 2010
Save our home!
DeKalb, Ill.--My 20-year-old daughter, Ashley, was killed in action in a service-related accident in Kuwait, Nov. 12, 2007. She was a medic in the Army National Guard. The accident is under investigation. Ashley was recruited while she was still in high school.
After her death, my husband and I were trying to deal with our pain in different ways. My husband lost his job and his car. He was unable to find another job. We fell behind on our mortgage payments. We are facing foreclosure. My husband didn't know how to deal with it and started drinking. He was arrested and now they want to deport him because he doesn't have papers. They didn't ask us for any papers to let our daughter go fight. Now, we are not good enough to live here.
Because of all this I had to have gall bladder surgery. My son needed to get his appendix out almost simultaneously. I am begging you to advocate for us and to help keep our family together.
I have been trying to communicate this situation to politicians, organizations, and the National Guard. It is devastating that no one in our country has the ability or courage to fight for our family like our daughter was willing to do for them.
The P.O.W. Network, which is supposed to care about veterans, wrote back to me: "May you rot in hell for this scam."
Even though the government gives help to banks, they are not helping us. I don't think my son and I can survive without my husband. Please help us save our home.
--Olivia Segura
326 Cloverleaf Court, DeKalb, IL 60115
Tel.: 815-505-6478
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